how are shooting stars formed
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When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere, it burns up because of friction. Basically, the rock hits the atmosphere and rubs up against the air like your two hands rubbed up against one another. This causes friction, and this friction heats up the meteoroid like it did your hands.
The heat that's generated by this friction will ionize atoms in a pathway behind where the space debris just passed through. This ionization is what causes the brief streak of light you see forming in the sky, the meteor. The heat generated by this event vaporizes most of the meteoroids entering Earth, and thus, you're really lucky if you find a meteorite on the ground.
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