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Not really. A meteor is a glowing streak of light in the sky caused when a rock falls from space and gets heated to incandescence by friction and compression. There really isn't a "tail". We see it as a "streak" rather than as a point because the air itself is heated to glowing by the passage of the rock. And also because of the "persistence of vision" where our mind continues to "see" something that was there a fraction of a second ago.

"Persistence of vision" is why we see motion pictures as "motion" pictures instead of what they really are; a sequence of still images that changes thirty times a second.

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Do meteoroids have tails?

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The glowing tails that result when meteoroids burn up in Earth's atmosphere are called?

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Do meteors have tails, and if so, what causes them to form?

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How comets asteroids and meteors different from each other?

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What is a group of meteors?

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Why meteors are important?

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How many meteors can fit in the sun?

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Does meteors exist now?

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Is a comet and a meteor considered to be small planets?

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