• Question: What is a meteor shower?

    Asked by Sharmin_the BEST to Chris on 16 Mar 2016.
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      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:


      A meteor shower is when debris from space goes through the earth’s atmosphere. This debris is rock and gas from an asteroid or through a comet. Most meteor showers are when the earth moves through the tail of a comet in fact.

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