Perseid meteor shower 2020
- August 10, 2020
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Subject: Science and tech
Context:
In India, Perseid meteor shower starting August 11 or August 12 and the visibility of the meteor shower is high late in the night from 2 AM to dawn
Concept:
- A meteor is a space rock or meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere.
- As the space rock falls toward Earth, the resistance—or drag—of the air on the rock makes it extremely hot.
- That bright streak is not actually the rock, but rather the glowing hot air as the hot rock zips through the atmosphere.
- When Earth encounters many meteoroids at once, then it is meteor shower.