1. Meteor shower:
By Berta Comabella
By Berta Comabella

2. Index:
• What is a meteor?
• What are meteor showers?
• When do meteor showers happen?
• Curiosities: Famous meteors.
• Real meteors.
• Bibliography.

3. What is a meteor?
• A meteor is a line of light in the sky caused
by small particles of dust or a piece
of space rock which enters in the Earth's
atmosphere and gets burned.

4. What are meteor showers?
• Meteor Showers are numerous meteors seen
in short time as the Earth moves through a
cloud of meteoroids.

5. When do meteor showers happen?
• The meteor showers happen when the
Earth passes through the orbit of a comet,
in these areas there are usually lots of
dust accumulated. Then we can
see many stars falling in a short
time. These rains are repeated on the same
date, every year, and we always see the
meteors coming from the same direction.

6. Famous meteors:
• Ensisheim is the oldest meteor which fell on
the Earth the 7th of november in 1492.

7. Famous meteors:
• Cape York it was discovered in 1963 and it is
one of the biggest meteors in the world.

8. Real meteors:
• This video was on tv, and happened in the
USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_jbO9_GEAw

9. Biblioghrapy:
• http://www.jouscout.com/astro/meteors.htm
• http://alt1040.com/2010/08/lluvia-de-
perseidas-todo-lo-que-necesitas-saber
• http://nadamasquelaverdad.wordpress.com/2
011/08/11/la-verdad-sobre-la-lluvia-de-
estrellas/
• http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/2020861/200
60812/noticia.html