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A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth's surface. Intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms, which may produce greater than 1,000 meteors an hour.[1]The Meteor Data Center lists about 600 suspected meteor showers of which about 100 are well established.[2]
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How many episodes does meteor garden have?
Meteor Garden has nineteen episodes .
Can Rayquaza learn Draco Meteor?
Yes, Rayquaza can learn Draco meteor.
When did Meteor Garden end?
Meteor Garden ended on 2001-08-16.
When was Meteor Garden created?
Meteor Garden was created on 2001-04-12.
When was Great Meteor Seamount created?
Great Meteor Seamount was created in 1938.
What causes a meteor to produce a large bright tail?
The friction with atmosphere causes heat and the meteor eventually burns out.
How does friction affect a meteor?
When a meteor enters the earth's atmosphere, friction with the air generates enormous amounts of heat, which causes the meteor to at least partially burn up.
What are some of the causes of craters?
Meteor impact, volcanism, bombs.
What causes a meteor to shine like a star?
Meteors shine like a star because of the friction with Earth's atmosphere as they travel at high speeds. This causes the meteor to heat up and glow.
What starts meteor showers?
The friction between dust on a meteoroid and the Earth's atmosphere causes the light to shine, which is a meteor. When lots of meteroids hit Earth at similar times, a significant amount of meteors show in Earth, causing a meteor shower.
What causes the meteor to fall?
Gravity and the unfortunate state of being in its path as it travels around the sun
What causes meteors to enter earths atmosphere?
Gravity. And the meteor is on a path that intersects the orbit of the Earth.
What causes a meteor to burn?
gases combined with the speed, plus the passing through earths atmosphere. Or to answer in a word........friction!
What causes a meteor showers at the same time each year?
Earth's orbit crossing the orbit of a defunct comet.
When earth passes though a comets orbit what happens?
It causes meteor showers like Eta, Aquarius, and Orionids.
How would a meteor experience an adiabatic compression?
As the meteor enters the atmosphere it is assaulted with atmospheric ram pressure. Ram pressure is the pressure exerted on the object and causes a drag force. A meteor produces a shock wave generated by the rapid compression of air in front of the meteor.
What causes meteor to glow when they fall on earth?
The main cause is they fart alot but also its because they are going so fast
