Meteors

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn in order to illuminate their century.

The atmosphere protects us from meteors.

Due to the friction generated between a meteor and the atmospheric gases, most meteors burn up before hitting Earth's surface as a meteorite.

People often refer to meteors as "falling" or "shooting" stars.

On the night of November 16, 1966, the Leonid meteor shower, which occurs in November of each year, rained down on Arizona at the rate of 2300 meteors per minute for a 20 minute period.

Have you ever seen a meteor shower, where meteors burn up and streak across the sky? Those meteors are burning up in the mesosphere.

The mesosphere is also the layer in which a lot of meteors burn up while entering Earth’s atmosphere.

The theory of panspermia states that life originated on another planet (or planets) and came to earth on asteroids, meteors, or other cosmic objects.

Meteors are the bright flashes of light seen in the night sky. They are caused by meteoroids — small, solid objects moving through space that have entered Earth's atmosphere.

Meteors appear all over the sky.