When is National Meteor Watch Day?
Friday June 30thNATIONAL METEOR WATCH DAY | JUNE 30 – JUNE 30.
National Meteor Watch Day on June 30th, encourages us to look to the stars for one of the night sky's most spectacular sights. People on a cloudless night, also known as National Meteor Day, people flock to the heavens in the hopes of finding the glow of a falling star..
A learning opportunity for a national meteor watch day
When space debris, such as pieces of rock, penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, the surrounding air becomes scorching hot. A meteor with this "shooting star" streaking through the sky and surrounded by flaming hot air is a meteor.
The bulk of meteoroids that cause meteor meteor meteors are only the size of a pebble.