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cosmic litter burning up so you can lie about wishes
means Meteors are streaks of light that flash across the sky when bits of space debris hit Earth's atmosphere and burn up from friction.
from From Greek 'meteoron,' meaning 'a thing high up in the air,' from 'meta-' (beyond, among) plus 'aeirein' (to lift, raise). To the ancient Greeks, a 'meteoron' was any atmospheric phenomenon — rain, clouds, lightning, shooting stars all lumped together — which is why we still study weather as 'meteorology.' The narrowing to specifically those bright streaks of falling rock came later, but the word still carries its old sense of something suspended in the heights, briefly belonging to the sky before it vanishes.
- actual size
- most are smaller than a grain of sand
- speed
- can scream in at 70 km per second
- daily total
- about 25 million enter the atmosphere daily
- name swap
- becomes a meteorite only if it lands
- the glow
- that streak is superheated air, not the rock
perseid meteor shower — peaks every august with 50-100 meteors per hour visible from earth
leonid meteor shower — produces up to 1000 meteors per hour during peak years like 1966 and 2001
chelyabinsk meteor — exploded over russia on february 15, 2013, with force of 500 atomic bombs