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It is just a small piece of ice, dust or rock burning up in the sky as it enters Earth's atmosphere. They are high in the sky and so make little or no noise as they burn, so we do not hear anything. They burn extremely fast, lasting a fraction of a second sometimes, so it all happens very quickly.

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