• Question: what causes meteor showers and why?

    Asked by hughesy123 to Kate on 9 Nov 2016.
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      Kate Elliott answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      Cosmic debris (dust and rocks mainly) enters the Earth’s atmosphere at really high speeds. This causes the shooting stars you see as they burn up in the atmosphere. Most of them never hit the Earth because they have already broken up by then.

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