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It has to do with the chemical composition of the meteor and the speed in which the meteor is entering Earth's atmosphere. As the meteor plunges through the Earth's atmosphere, different temperatures will excite different chemicals within the meteorite all while the friction created from the meteor breaking though the atmosphere are stripping it of its' chemical layers. The temperature and the chemical composition that ignites will determine the color: sodium - orange/yellow iron - yellow magnesium - blue/green calcium - violet silicate - red
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