Streaks of Light Every day thousands of small space rocks enter Earth's atmosphere Together these meteoroids weigh more than nine buses But don't worry Most space rocks never hit the ground They burn up as they fall through the atmosphere And that creates the fiery streaks of light scientists call meteors Meteor Meanings ATMOSPHERE The layer of gases that surrounds a planet METEOROID A small rocky object in space or the atmosphere METEOR The streak of light produced as a meteoroid burns up in the atmosphere
If you watch the sky for In an hour on a clear night you will probably see two or three meteors This time lapse photo I captured six meteors in just eight minutes
