Do you know the myth about shooting stars?

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Do you know the myth about shooting stars?



Most of us probably have seen or heard about shooting stars. But no one wonders if it is actually a shooting or dying star or something else about which many of us have a misconception. If you think like everybody else about shooting stars so you are totally wrong. 

So what exactly it is?


A shooting star is not a star but a meteor. A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris (space junk) burns up as it passes through our atmosphere. "Meteor" refers to the flash of light caused by the debris, not the debris itself.


The debris is called a meteoroid. A meteoroid is a piece of interplanetary matter that is smaller than a kilometer and frequently only millimeters in size. Most meteoroids that enter the Earth's atmosphere are so small that they vaporize completely and never reach the planet's surface.


What if shooting star reaches the Earth?


If any part of a meteoroid survives the fall through the atmosphere and lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite. Although the vast majority of meteorites are very small, their size can range from about a fraction of a gram (the size of a pebble) to 100 kilograms or more (the size of a huge, life-destroying boulder).

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Asteroids are generally larger chunks of rock that come from the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Comets are asteroid-like objects covered with ice, methane, ammonia, and other compounds that develop a fuzzy, cloud-like shell called a coma and sometimes a visible tail whenever they orbit close to the Sun.

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