2007-10-23 17:58:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
But relative to the Earth, the speed is typically 10 to 70 kilometres/second. That's 22500 to 157500 miles/hr.
2007-10-23 18:15:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
A "shooting star" is really what's called a meteor. That's the bright streak of light you sometimes see flashing across the sky at night. The speed that one of these meteors has when it moves down through our atmosphere depends a lot on how big it is, how much mass it has, and the angle it travels across the sky. Top speed for an average meteor would be somewhere around 160,000 mph.
2007-10-23 18:15:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Shooting stars or meteors from a comet are very small chunks of metal or ice that come from the tail, and only show themselves when the enter our upper atmosphere and start heating up. The velocity of the particle is not more than the comet it came from. The range typically is from 15K mph to 40k mph as it enters the Earth's atmosphere.
2007-10-23 18:14:41 · answer #3 · answered by TicToc.... 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. None of what you mentioned is actual. "all of us understand asteroids or shooting stars or different issues as quickly as we learn the area traveled and the time line they had to circulate quicker than the cost of sunshine." this is incorrect. If any asteroid traveled quicker than the cost of sunshine we would have huge craters on the earth and notice huge craters on different planets, this is that if the concern interior the image voltaic gadget wasn't switched over into organic capacity and remember might have under no circumstances had a low sufficient capacity to coalesce. This fact is going against many regulations of physics which comprise thermodynamics, the regulations of action and relativity between others.
2016-10-04 11:33:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a shooting star doesn't travel in space. It is debris burning up in the earths atmosphere that causes the light to appear in the sky.
2007-10-23 18:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Ande B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fastest objects travel at roughly 26 miles per second (42 km per second) through space in the vicinity of Earth's orbit. Together with Earth's orbital motion of 18 miles per second (29 km per second) speeds can reach 44 miles per second (71 kilometers per second) in head-on collisions.
2007-10-23 18:22:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anita-Bonita-Banana 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
wow fascinating , just so fascinating!
awesome question and answers!
awsome !!!
i just love astronomy so much !
2007-10-23 18:45:48 · answer #7 · answered by Kara 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
put it this way, if you blinked your eye, you missed it
2007-10-24 11:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by yogi bear 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋