Météor

Meteor adalah panampakan jalur gugurnya meteoroid ka atmosfer bumi, lazim disambat sawagai bintang gugur. Panampakan ngintu disababakan oleh panas nang dihasilakan oleh tikinan ram (lain oleh gesekan, sebagaimana anggapan umum sebelum ini) wayah meteoroid memasuki atmosfer. Meteor nang tarang banar, tatarang daripada penampakan Planet Venus, dapat disebut sebagai bolide.

Amun sabuting meteoroid kada habis tabakar dalam parjalanannya di atmosfer wan mencapai permukaan bumi, benda nang dihasilkan disambat meteorit. Meteor nang marumpak bumi atawa objek lain kawa membentuk impact crater.

 Pranala luar 
  Astronomers spot meteor streaking across central Ontario sky - CBC News March 7, 2008
  Meteoroids Page  at NASA's Solar System Exploration
  International Meteor Organization fireball page
  British Astronomical Society fireball page
  A Goddard Space Flight Center Science Question of the Week where the answer mentions that a fireball will cast a shadow. 
  Meteor Showers and Viewing Tips
  Meteor shower predictions 
  Society for Popular Astronomy - Meteor Section 
  Video - Meteor brilliantly lights up sky - and breaks into pieces - Canada - Times Online - November 24, 2008
  How meteor showers were linked to comets
  Science and History of the Perseid Meteor Shower
  -A History of Meteors and Other Atmospheric Phenomena 

Kategori:Meteoroid
Kategori:Fenomena astronomi

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