The formation of shooting star.
Answer to Problem 1QFR
The burning of the meteor that enters the atmosphere of the Earth in the form of light seen as a shooting star in the night sky.
Explanation of Solution
Shooting star is a spark of light forms in the Earth’s atmosphere only in a fraction of a second which fastly fades away. This spark occurs due to the burning of meteor. Shooting stars fastly shoots across the sky. When they are moving through the atmosphere , the speed will be very high so that it will heats up and starts sparking for a small time. They are usually rocks that falls into Earth’s atmosphere. When it falls due to the friction between the air and rock makes the rock to gets hot.
Thus the shooting star is due to the burning of the meteor in the night sky.
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