Butal yog muling (Shooting star)
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Butal yog muling, moolyin, or binar is called in English a meteor or a Shooting Star, or if it is very bright it is called a fireball.
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It is the visible passage of a glowing piece of space dust (meteoroid) or lump of rock (asteroid) or ice (comet).
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Meteor showers are many meteors - perhaps yira to rates of a few a minute at their peak seen from a dark sky site with no Meeka (Moon)
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- and are caused by the Earth passing through the orbit of a decayed comet and colliding with the space dust left over from the comet.
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If the meteor reaches the Earth, the piece of space rock is called a meteorite. Hence in space it is a meteoroid, when burning in the atmosphere a meteor, and if it survives to reach the ground, it is a meteorite.
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What surprised me was that the elders had a song referring to the star that fell to the Earth, and it appears it may predate the first contact between white people and Aboriginal people in that region ...
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It's a wonderful story and [it's] my belief that there was some sort of deduction or association that's going on about how the crater was formed.
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It's a wonderful story and [it's] my belief that there was some sort of deduction or association that's going on about how the crater was formed.
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