Meteor

=Meteor=

A meteor is a visible streak of light that apears when a meteoroid (an object smaller then an asteroid but bigger than an atom) enter the earths upper atmosphere. They become visible about 65-120 km above the earth.They disintegrate at altitudes of 50 to 95 kilometers. Meteors have roughly a fifty percent chance of a daylight (or near daylight) collision with the Earth as the Earth orbits in the direction of roughly west at noon. Most Meteor are obsereved at night as low light conditions allow fainter meteor to be observed. Body of Meteor is scaled about larger than 10cm to several metres. When Meteor came in to the Earth`s atmosphere atmospheric ram pressure heats up the Meteor and Meteor will melt down by producing the gas. The gas include vaporized Meteoroid material and atmospheric gases that heats up when the meteoroid passes through the atmosphere. Most Meteor grew about second and some of them hit the Earth`s surface and that is Meteorite. All the Meteor is came from the Asteroid belt.
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