What Causes a Meteor Shower

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Multiple Choice

What causes a meteor shower?

• A) If Earth happens to be near a comet when it breaks up, we will see a shower as debris enters Earth''s atmosphere.
• B) Earth passes through the orbit of a comet. If the comet happens to be nearby, the normal ejecta from the nucleus will cause a shower.
• C) Earth passes through the tail of a comet.
• D) Earth passes through the orbit of a former comet that has become strewn with debris. This enters our atmosphere and causes showers.

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