The science of meteor showers
Jul 16, 2020
2 minutes
Although seemingly empty, the space between the planets of our Solar System is teeming with vast numbers of meteoroids, small pieces of rock and dust largely originating from comets and asteroids but also, to a lesser extent, from the terrestrial planets and rocky satellites. A small number even originate from outside our Solar System: so-called interstellar dust. Meteors are produced when these particles enter Earth’s atmosphere at extremely
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