Comets, asteroids & METEOR SHOWERS

Racing through space and crashing into Earth’s atmosphere, discover the space rocks that litter our Solar System

Every 133 years a comet that goes by the name of Swift-Tuttle makes its return to the inner Solar System. It last made an appearance 15 years ago. Each time it nears the Sun this speeding ball of ice, rock and dust grows a tail that deposits a glittering trail in its wake, replenishing it on each visit. Every year, our very own planet moves through this cloud, causing those dust particles to come crashing through the atmosphere. Most of them are tiny, just centimetres or even millimetres across, but as they burn up 100 kilometres (60 miles) above our heads they leave a bright streak of light. We call this a meteor, although you may know them by their more common name of ‘shooting star’. The space between the…

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