What is the relationship between comets and meteor showers?

Answer 1

Some meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through the remnants of an old comet or parts of the trail of debris left by comets. The Leonid meteor shower is caused by Earth passing through the trail of comet Temple-Tuttle.

Answer 2

As a comet comes close to the sun its surface layers are vaporized and stripped away, leaving a trail of solid particles. When earth passes through such a trail, some of these particles burn up in Earth's atmosphere as meteors

Answer 3

Not quite; a meteor shower happens when the EARTH passes through the orbit of a comet.

Comets are "dirty snowballs". When they whiz past the Sun, the Sun's heat and light cause the snow and ice to vaporize, carrying the dust and dirt out into space and forming the tail of the comet. But the basic orbit of each speck of dust and dirt, as it slowly moves away from the head of the comet, is the same as the comet itself.

Over the course of hundreds or thousands of orbits, the slightly disturbed dust and sand has spread out throughout the orbital path of the comet, and if that path happens to cross the Earth's orbital path, then the Earth will pass through that dusty trail around the Sun - and each fleck of dust, every grain of sand, will become a meteor. A meteor shower.

Answer 4

comets become meteoroids when they pass through the earths atmosphere

Answer 5

during a lunar eclipse the shadow of the celestial body blocks our view of the moon?