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Meteors

Perseid Meteor

Perseid Meteor · 2018-08-12

A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body going through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via its rapid motion and sometimes also by shedding glowing material in its wake.

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Created: 12 August 2018
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