Meteor

Foto langit nalika dumadi udan meteor.

Meteor iku pasawangan jalur tibané meteoroid menyang atmosfer bumi, sing asring diarani minangka lintang tiba. Pasawangan kasebut disebabaké déning panas sing diasilaké déning tekanan ram (dudu déning gèsèkan, kayadéné anggepan umum sadurungé iki) nalika meteoroid mlebu atmosfer. Meteor sing padhang banget, luwih padhang tinimbang pasawangan Planèt Venus, bisa diarani minangka bolide.

Yèn sawijining meteoroid ora entèk kobong jroning lelakuné ing atmosfer lan tekan lumahing bumi, bendha sing diasilaké diarani meteorit. Meteor sing nabrak bumi utawa objèk liya bisa mbentuk impact crater.

Pranala njaba

• (en) Astronomers spot meteor streaking across central Ontario sky - CBC News March 7, 2008
• (en) Meteoroids Page at NASA's Solar System Exploration
• (en) International Meteor Organization fireball page
• (en) British Astronomical Society fireball page
• (en) A Goddard Space Flight Center Science Question of the Week where the answer mentions that a fireball will cast a shadow.
• (en) Meteor Showers and Viewing Tips
• (en) Meteor shower predictions
• (en) Society for Popular Astronomy - Meteor Section
• (en) Video - Meteor brilliantly lights up sky - and breaks into pieces - Canada - Times Online - November 24, 2008
• (en) How meteor showers were linked to comets
• (en) Science and History of the Perseid Meteor Shower
• (en) -A History of Meteors and Other Atmospheric Phenomena