Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-27-2022
Abstract
If you look up on a clear night without much light pollution, you should see a meteor roughly every ten minutes. Most meteors are rocks the size of a grain of sand falling from space at hypersonic speeds, and the pressure experienced as they hurtle through the atmosphere heats up the air to glow as "shooting stars."
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Recommended Citation
Johnson, Erik, "Meteors provide clues into other worlds" (2022). Natural Science Faculty. 14.
https://spark.parkland.edu/natsci_fac/14
Comments
This article was published in the Inside Out column of the News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) and is available to read in The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL) through the NewsBank database: Meteors provide clues into other worlds.