Sunday, March 11, 2012
Shooting Star
Shooting Stars
Other than the Sun, eight planets, satellite, dwarf planet of the Solar System, there are lots of other particles and dust in the outer space. Some of these particles are known as meteoroid, a rock particle in the Solar System. They may pass by Earth, and when they do, they’d probably be affected by Earth’s gravity. When this happens, they could pierce through the atmosphere and enter the surface of the Earth. When meteoroids pierced through the atmosphere, a great frictional force will ignite it into fire, leaving a trail of light behind it which will then form meteor, or colloquially known as shooting star. They travel approximately at the speed of 11-72km per second at about 80-120km above the sky. Meteors that appear brighter than the usual ones are called fireball. When several meteors appear at the same time or minutes after/before another, it is then known as a phenomena called meteor shower. Meteoroids that are larger than a green bean could easily be seen with a naked eye as they ignite into meteors.
Fireball
Fireballs may appear brighter, like a fire dragon with some ‘hissing’ sound.
Some of the fireballs are so bright that they’re even visible during daytime! Fireballs could appear much brighter because of its size. Having insufficient time to burn out, these fireballs could burst into fire with a high frictional force. Sometimes, they could even travel in an ‘S’ shaped track. As a fireball burn out, it leaves track behind from its left-over debris which is known as meteoric dust. Meteoric dust could persist up in the atmosphere for up to several months!
Meteor Shower
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. Meteor Shower is often associated with a parent comet. Because meteor shower particles are all travelling in parallel paths, and at the same velocity, they will all appear to an observer below to radiate away from a single point in the sky.
Intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms, which may produce greater than 1,000 meteors an hour! This would appear like fireworks during festival events.
Postscript:
From a tiny dust that ignites into a ball of light, a meteor seems to be telling a story of life. Each of them travels in a different velocity, which represented our pace which is uniquely different. Why do I say so?
From a baby who starts learning to talk, crawl, and stand, we grow through challenges, failure, and numerous trials. When we’re finally adults who work in the society, we learn to communicate and construct relationship with people. These are all the lessons we learn from life. However, our pace in life very much depends on our will. When we possess a strong will, we’re able of overcoming challenges and achieve growth in no time.
No matter if we’re strong or weak, our final aim is to become the very ‘source of light’ aren’t we? But before we could reach that, everyone has to go through their own lessons. The speed we travel is not the most important thing here, but the number of lessons we’ve taken. If we’re meteoroids from the space, we must undergo challenge to experience the great frictional force in order to ignite ourselves. To continuously take up a challenge to brighten our light, is a practice of Human Revolution. No one could ever become a great person in a single night. Achievement comes with great effort.
On our journey, failure isn’t a problem, but giving up is. Please remember not to give up your challenge, never stop training and improving yourself to enhance your brightness! Please always be prepared to give your best effort for your growth.
When we vigorously strive towards our aim with a strong faith towards the Mystic law, we’ll sure be able to improve ourselves and becoming the next shining star!
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