Assertion: meteoroid | /r/HasProperty | the flash of light
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text: A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere.
text: the -oid ending meaning they have something to do with the start of their name; and in fact meteors themselves are streaks of light, usually visible only in the nighttime sky, which are caused by meteoroids running into our atmosphere at tens of thousands of miles per hour, heating up themselves and the air they are passing through to thousands or tens of thousands of degrees, and making the air and that part of the meteoroid which is vaporized glow brightly enough to see tens of miles below.
text: A meteor is the streak of light caused when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere.
text: A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere.