• Question: Are meteors rocks that have come down from space so fast that it catches fire? If not, what are they?

    Asked by anon-192243 to Sophie, Simon, Kelly on 14 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Kelly Rushton

      Kelly Rushton answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Meteors are smaller rocks that vaporise when they enter the atmosphere so that you just see a streak of light (a shooting star).

    • Photo: Sophie Morse

      Sophie Morse answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      They are pieces of debris. When it meets atmospheric gases it heats up and so that’s why it can catch fire.

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Meteors are rocks or glass from space that heat up in our atmosphere and glow very hot, this usually destroys the rock and very few make it to the ground.

      Most meteors are only the size of a grain of sand.

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