Showing posts with label Meteors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meteors. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

How Meteors Are Form?

Meteors start as small pieces of dust, ice and rock that are called meteoroids . Meteoroids are found in a tail of a comet.

As the comet passes by the sun, the sun begins to melt the comet. Pieces of rock shatter and left floating in space.

As Earth's travels around the sun , meteoriods go into the path of Earth. Some meteoriods are pulled closer to Earth because of the Earth's gravity. As meteoriods enter through Earth's atmosphere they are called "meteors'. When meteoriods start to fall through the Earth's atmosphere they start to become burning hot. Soon they will get so hot they start to glow and burn.

Sometimes meteors are mistaken for shooting stars .

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Explanation -How Are Meteors Made?


Meteors begin as little chunks of rock and dust they are called Meteroids. These fragments of dust and rock are mostly located in a tail of a comet. When a comet zooms by the sun, the heat from the sun begins to melt the comet. Pieces of rocks breaks down and depart from the comet. These left over portions of rocks float in space, as the comet speeds on.

As Earth orbits the sun, Earth journeys by many meteoroids. Most of meteoroids are pulled closer to Earth because of the Earth's gravity. As meteoroids begin to travel through the Earth's atmosphere they become very, very hot. They are so hot they burn up and glow. Meteors are mostly mistaken for a shooting stars. However shooting stars are meteoroids that hit Earth's Atmosphere and burn up and glow.

How Meteors Are Formed


Meteors begin in small chunks of rock and dust,they are called Meteoroids.These fragments are sometimes found in the long tail of a comet.As the comet goes by the Sun,the warmth from the Sun melts the comet.Chunks of rock shatter and they are left in space.These rocks are called Meteoroids.

These left over chunks of rocks float in space.As the Earth spins around the Sun,it passes through paths of Meteoroids.Some of the Meteoroids are pulled towards Earth because of Earth's gravity.As the Meteoroids enter Earths atmosphere they are called ''Meteors''.As meteors begin to pass through Earth's atmosphere they became hot and glow. Some meteors can be mistaken for the shooting stars. Shooting Stars are actually Meteors.

How Meteors Are Formed.

Meteors begin as small portions of dust and rock's they are called meteors these fragments are usually found in the tail of a comet. As the comet passes the sun the heat from the sun being to melt the comet .Pieces of rock shatter from the tail of a comet.These rocks are called meteoroids. These left over chunks of rocks float in space as the comet travels on.


As earth spins around the sun it passes through many paths of meteoroids. Some meteoroids are pulled closer because Earth's gravity, as the meterorids shoots through Earth's atmosphere the meteoroids begin to become very hot. The meteoroids are so hot they begin to burn and glow. Some people see shooting stars but they are actually meteors passing through our atmosphere.