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the meteor is burning fire on the tail, and its going very fast, so the friction of a meteor's speed will keep it going, so whenever the meteor slows down, is when the meteors will slop flying
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∙ 14y agoSometimes it can be just a fraction of a second. They can be so quick that you are not even sure if you saw one. A bigger one may last slightly longer, for a few seconds, and briefly leave a tail in the sky, helping you to be sure that you saw one.
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∙ 10y agoThey have been around longer than people can remember. They have been around for billions of years. They are just tiny pieces of ice, rock or dust that are flying through space, left over from the formation of the planets and from the trails of comets.
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∙ 12y agoNobody knows. An upper estimate is about 10 million years, but this seems exceptionally optimistic. A more reasonable answer is that it will probably either break up in the next few hundred passes (maybe 20-30,000 years) or be ejected from the inner Solar System in a hundred thousand years or so.
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∙ 12y agoIn the modern sense, since 1922. However, it's likely that primitive man saw patterns in the sky well before the dawn of history.
"Constellations" are entirely man-made. The stars have "always" been there (for billions of years, at least), but the notion of dividing the sky into regions and seeing patterns in those regions is the result of an imaginative mind.
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∙ 13y agoWe don't know how long Halley's comet has been around in the Solar System, but it's periodicity was discovered in 1705, by Edmond Halley, so if you are counting on how long it has been in the records, you are looking at around 305 years.
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∙ 13y agoUsually 1-5 hours, depends on the location.
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∙ 12y agoThe cavemen, meteors have been falling from the sky since 4.5 million years ago.
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How did you find out that meteors existed?
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How does meteors move?
They move around the Sun in ellipses - just like the planets.
Does meteors is planets or moons?
Meteors are pieces of either moons or planets that broke off and are freely floating around in place t'ill they get attracted by a planets gravitational pull.
What are comets and meteors made of?
Comets and meteors are made of rocks and boulders same as on earth. But since they are in space for a long time, they might have some differences, little differences.
Do meteors hurt people?
Meteors rarely hit people, but there has been a case when a woman had one go through her home's roof and hit her. She was only bruised in some places.
How did you find out that meteors existed?
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Meteors direction of orbit?
Meteors travels through earth. While the meteors travel towards the earth they go around the orbit.
Who was the first person to see a meteor?
As long as humans can remember, people have been seeing meteors, so there is no answer to that question.
Do meteors rotate?
Not necessarily like a planet. Meteors are generally small irregular objects that spin around irregularly.
Do meteors go beyond Jupiter?
Most meteors are sand grain sized objects that had been ejected from comets as they followed around their highly elliptical orbits. As most of these comets have orbits that extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter at their aphelion, then yes most of these sand grains that become meteors when they enter earth's atmosphere have been beyond the orbit of Jupiter. However they are not actually meteors until they enter earth's atmosphere, so while they are actually meteors they are nowhere near Jupiter. Many larger meteors were pieces of asteroids. The vast majority of asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter and thus have never been even near Jupiter, and definitely not beyond Jupiter's orbit.
How long has deforestaion been around?
how long has deforestation been around
How long has guns been around?
As long as guns have been around.
Have there been meteors from Mars found on earth?
Yes.
How does a meteor get bigger?
no meteors get bigger. meteors are rock, witch is usually been released from a bigger rock, sutch as a planet.
How often do meteors hit the moon?
well the last 3 years there has been more than 5,000 meteors hit in the moon but now its been estimated to pass 1.2 millions smalls meteors so fast that mad a couple cracks on the moon
What is the connection between comets and meteors?
They fly around in space.
How long has the London eye been around for?
how long has the london eye been around for
