Meteor Showers 101 | National Geographic

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1. Meteor showers create a spectacular light show for spectators to enjoy. Have you ever witnessed one in person?

2. There’s a meteor shower tonight but I’m too lazy so I’m watching this instead of going ourside

3. I. just saw it few minutes ago… there was live on Facebook but I saw it on the sky… so happy

4. I'm very excited because I'm going to see the meteor shower tonight hope it's not that dangerous wish me luck

5. only real meteor at 2:19 left part of the screen ( with tail ) everything else is planes or satellites.

6. I love the space and i want to be an astronaut i just stare into the sky for my spare time and i also searched this up bc i saw a comet (shooting star) last night

7. Beau ou belle!

8. What happens if a meteorite hits the earth? Nothing, it will land in the desert ?

9. Here only because of the 2001 TV drama hit Meteor Garden & special drama Meteor Rain. I always wanted to witness meteor shower.

10. These meteors are more often than I thought

11. I saw one just about 15min ago, such a beautiful and interesting thing it is, it was so quick I'm glad I saw it.

12. Is there an explanation for the 1833 leonid meteor shower ?

13. I just saw a shooting star so I looked it up

14. I love this video. Ham radio operators have devised a way to make communications via the trails of meteorites as they go through the ionosphere charging it for a very short time. It becomes just enough time to make contact with other people as far away as 1000 km.

    I would love to use this video as part of a special show devoted to describing “meteor scatter Communications.”

    I will of course credit National Geographic as well as this video in the description section of my video.

    If there is any problem with me showing my ham radio audience this video, please let me know.

    I don’t want to do anything that would be wrong here.

    Thank you for a brilliant and short illustration about meteor showers and when they happen. This is so helpful for our scientific community.

    Sincerely,

    Larry
    de K7HN

15. I live in Alaska… if you know you know

16. OMG it's too spectacular scanerio. Amazing view ???

17. The reason why it happens is because the jinn ‘spirits’ try eavesdropping to see the news on what’s happening in earth, so God ‘Allah’ sends shooting stars at them

    “˹Earlier˺ we tried to reach heaven ˹for news˺, only to find it filled with stern guards and shooting stars.
    We used to take up positions there for eavesdropping, but whoever dares eavesdrop now will find a flare lying in wait for them.

    Now, we have no clue whether evil is intended for those on earth, or their Lord intends for them what is right.’ Quran 72:7-10

    Nice try science but you got your theory wrong

18. Yall, i’ve been waiting 8 years to see one and i just finally saw one for the first time, i wished on it? it took me a minute to wish bc I admired it LMAO

19. Last year perseid meteor shower was awesome…memorable…I saw 11 meteors within 1 hr..hope for this year! Hope for clear sky..those are just awsome???☄..

20. Please put about blue moons and red moons plz

21. Bruh i have a idea so i set up my phone Infront of my window then I fast forward it and see the shooting stars

22. Only here because I just saw my first shooting star ever never seen one before while? ???‍♂️???⬆️ ??

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23. Why these meteors never fall on my rooftop, why they always fell somewhere in the desert , jungle or places like these!??? Now don't get started with those jokes… I just wanna have one at the same time don't want my rooftop broken.

24. Earths Flat

25. My Friends saw a green shooting star…. Bull constolations

26. Anyone else think how strange it is about how hostile our universe can be yet we exist in a beautiful world

27. I think I have a healthy obsession with watching documentaries from this channel hahaha

28. I don't know why do we value so much to anything that is non earthly.

29. Just watched something falling onto the earth from the sky!

30. I always watch sky full of starts and this give me hope to make my dream come true.

31. I wanna see it too!
    But in my place we cannot even see Sirius because of the clouds ;-;

32. The best part about my Naval deployment was laying on the flight deck at balls-2am and just seeing and endless ocean In the sky. There really is nothing like a night sky when you don't have light pollution

33. You've got to be joking. All those time lapses, and you people believe those are shooting stars? Those are planes. THINK about it. Normally when a plane traverses the sky, it takes a long while. They appear to be moving slowly across the sky. Shooting stars in real time zip by in less than a second. During a TIME LAPSE film, the shooting stars would hardly be noticeable because of how fast they appear and disappear. Planes/jets on the other hand appear to move much faster in a time lapse, such as what you see in this video. You can even see one of them change course at 1:25. At 2:14 you can even see one of those "shooting stars" leaving a chemtrail behind it! Also, when have you ever seen a shooting star go completely across the sky? If that happens it must be very rare. Every shooting star I've ever seen only appears for a brief moment and covers a mere fraction of the sky. The majority of lights seen in this video are aircraft.

34. The romantic shooting star may be an astronaut's digested burrito hitting the Earth's atmosphere.

35. Galaxy…Real…like…and

36. Everybody gangsta until you see meteor that didnt burnt out in the asmostphere

37. how can something so beautiful be so dangerous?

38. its lit in travis scott voice

39. the universe is so unreal

40. i learn more from this than 8 entire years on school

41. Insert bag raider's song, and done this video will get much more views and likes

42. I wish aliens are real, and all of them are identical to humans but they are all female that are almost extinct ¬‿¬

43. What if… every planet has life and a god like we do on Earth. And the devil is an evil villain trying to take us over ?

44. I just saw one driving into Nee York city lol very cool

45. I think I just see a shooting star not sure ?

46. Love this video

47. Just saw one

48. That thing about the Christian religion is false. That's catholic

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