Meteor Shower

• Sudden burst of meteor activity
• Earth passing through comet debris
  • The dust is not always evenly distributed along the comet's orbit so some years more meteors are seen
• Come from their radiant
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  • Direction in space from which the meteor stream seems to be diverging
  • Designated by the constellation in which the radiant is located
• No meteorites have ever been recovered from a meteor shower

Meteor Comet Space Astronomy