A meteor is a streak of light high up in the atmosphere. It occurs when a tiny solid object plunges through the air at a speed of many kilometers per second. The body is burned up by the friction, leaving a white hot trail.
Before entering the earth’s atmosphere, those bodies are called ‘meteoroids’. They orbit the sun like planets some on their own, others in long swarms. If the earth’s orbit passes through one of these meteor swarms, a meteor shower is seen.
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