Cosmic samples and the origin of solar system
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Meteors are tiny particles that enter Earth's atmosphere from space, appearing as shooting stars. Larger cosmic material can produce bright fireballs on impact. Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through trails of cosmic debris, causing bursts of meteor activity that radiate from a point in the sky. Meteorites are fragments of interplanetary debris that survive the fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere, with some discovered on the ground.
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- 1. TWO TWO
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- 15. EXO PLANETS
- 17. Meteors are tiny solid particles that enter Earth’s atmosphere from interplanetary space.
- 19. These “shooting stars” got their name because at night, their luminous vapors look like stars moving rapidly across the sky.
- 20. When a larger piece of cosmic material strikes Earth’s atmosphere, it can make a bright fireball.
- 21. SHOWER S
- 22. What is Meteor Shower? a sudden burst of meteor activity that usually lasts several hours. ‘as we look up at the atmosphere, their parallel paths seem to come toward us from a place in the sky called the radiant.’
- 23. Radiant of a Meteor Shower. The tracks of the meteors diverge from a point in the distance, just as long, parallel railroad tracks appear to do.
- 24. Any fragment of interplanetary debris that survives its fiery plunge through Earth’s atmosphere.
- 25. First, sometimes bright meteors (fireballs) are observed to penetrate the atmosphere to low altitudes. meteorite falls People sometimes discover unusual- looking rocks that turn out to be meteoritic; meteorite finds
- 28. The Hubble Space Telescope, as well as powerful new ground-based telescopes, enable astronomers to study directly the nearest of these circumstellar disks in regions of space where stars are being born today, such as the Orion Nebula or the Taurus star-forming region.
- 29. Protoplanetary Disk in the Orion Nebula.
- 30. Thank you!