NASA: Comets and meteor showers (Perseids meteor shower). --- Please Subscribe for Science and Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- Have you ever wondered what these cosmic fireworks? Meteor showers are just colorful debris of a passing comet or, occasionally, the debris from a fragmented asteroid. When a comet approaches the sun, heating up its icy surface. This will cause clouds of gas, dust and dirt to be released and forms a tail of debris,can stretch for millions of miles. As Earth passes near this dusty tail, some of the small dust particles hit our atmosphere. Create and burn them to enjoy large celestial fireworks for us. NASA creates meteor shower forecasts to prevent potential risks that launch spacecraft and orbiting the earth. NASA also monitors the showers to check the accuracy of the predictions. You can learn all about www.nasa.gov NASA missions. --- Rock and ice in the Solar System Our Solar SystemSystem consists of the sun, planets and moons, but it also contains a number of smaller chunks of rock and ice. These objects were made of the time, has made as our sun and solar system. So, where are all these little neighbors? Millions of rocky asteroids circling these sections in a range between the four rocky inner planets and the four outer gas giants. The Dawn mission is currently investigating on the way to Ceres and Vesta, two of the largest asteroids. Beyond Neptune there,is another ...



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