Assertion: cosmic ray | /r/CapableOf | collide with particle
Facets:
value: on arriving at earth
type: TEMPORAL
value: on the earth’s atmosphere
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: If cosmic rays collide with particles on their way to Earth or stray from their original travel path, he writes, "then there can be no accurate census of the kind Sam Ting is looking for.
text: In 1937, French physicist Pierre Auger (1899–1993) found that extensive particle showers (called air showers) occur when cosmic rays collide with particles high in the atmosphere, producing a cascade of electrons, positrons, photons, muons (particles similar to electrons but 200 times as massive), and other particles that reach Earth’s surface.
text: On arriving at earth, they collide with particles on the earth’s atmosphere, sparking a chain of reaction resulting in a large number of particles known as cosmic ray air shower.