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What does a meteor look like?

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I heard there was gonna be a meteor shower tonight, so I took some blankets out and layed in the grass, searching for them. After staying out for about a half hour, I thought it was useless to wait any longer...but then, there was a big red dot, with a blue and yellow flame, shooting across the sky and it left a pretty pink streak! Was it a meteor?

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  1. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap08010...

    http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap06111...


  2. Meteors look like bright streaks of light in the sky - some people call them "shooting stars" or "falling stars".

    What you saw was a meteor.

    The bright streak of colours and light is from the meteoroid burning up in our atmosphere from friction with the air.

    Most meteoroids are small - maybe the size of a golf ball or even smaller.  But they leave a bright streak because they vaporize almost completely in the upper atmosphere.

    Sometimes, a meteoroid that is a little larger (maybe the size of a grapefruit or a watermelon) actually survives the trip through the atmosphere and lands on the ground - then it is called a meteorite.

  3. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

    http://biorust.com/tutorials/cinema4d-py...

    http://see.msfc.nasa.gov/sparkman/Images...

    it really looks like a rock. They just enter our atmosphere, in the process making craters on earth. Like on the moon.(last picture)

    use the links to view pictures.

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