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True! But the “brief flash of light” ones are objects burning up in our atmosphere. They can be comets or even artificial objects, but usually they are meteors.
Also comets are just asteroids with sufficiently eccentric orbits and a particularly impressive chemical makeup. (I.e. enough ice to make a pretty tail.) So I think if they enter earth’s atmosphere they’re still meteors?
True! But the “brief flash of light” ones are objects burning up in our atmosphere. They can be comets or even artificial objects, but usually they are meteors.
Also comets are just asteroids with sufficiently eccentric orbits and a particularly impressive chemical makeup. (I.e. enough ice to make a pretty tail.) So I think if they enter earth’s atmosphere they’re still meteors?
Artificial objects? Hmm, so if next time I wish for a collision between starlink satellites I could trigger the unlimited wishes glitch?
Better hope kessler syndrome is worth all those wishes 🤣