The other members of the Solar System

Meteor

    When the weather is fine at night , we can see many stars twinkling in the sky . Once in a while we can see a bright ray of light shooting across the sky and then disappears in an instant . Some people think that the stars have fallen to the fallen ? Of course not ! The ray of light is a meteor or a shooting star .

    A meteor is meteoroid that burns in a bright streak due to great friction with the air molecules in the atmosphere . What is a meteoroid ? A meteoroid is a small piece of rock that floats about in space . In the Solar System, there are millions of meteoroids that move around the Sun . Meteoroids move close to the Earth . The force of Earth’s gravity pulls some meteoroids into the Earth’s atmosphere . Most meteoroids burn up into ashes in the atmosphere before they can reach the surface of the Earth . Sometimes some meteoroids that are not burn up completely do reach the surface of the Earth and these are known as meteorites .

    Sometimes many meteors can be seen falling from the sky . This is known as a meteor shower .