r/meteors

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Meteors: Rocks from space

r/meteors

Pictures and discussion of meteors.

Created Feb 16, 2013 · restricted

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A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is the visible passage of a glowing meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet, or asteroid through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via its rapid motion and sometimes also by shedding glowing material in its wake.

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r/Astronomy
r/MeteoriteHunting
Table of meteor showers - Wikipedia
Close earth approaches - JPL
Fireball Events - American Meteor Society

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