• Question: How dose a meteor shower form?

    Asked by 559gdge39 to Chris on 16 Mar 2016.
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      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:


      A meteor shower is actually rocks and material from a comet’s tail that exists in space. When the earth’s motion goes through this field of rock and material we see it burn up in the atmosphere, which is the meteor shower.

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