Ist year || English || Unit 2 || Shooting Stars || Hal Borland || Paragraph 4 || Prose

The Chapter Shooting Stars by Hal Borland introduces the reader
to the concept of shooting stars,
which are actually meteors burning
up in the Earth's atmosphere. It
explains that meteors are fragments
of comets and details several annual
meteor showers, such as the
*Perseids* in August and the
*Leonids* in November. The passage
also shares a famous meteor event
witnessed by Professor Denison
Olmstead in 1833, where an
extraordinary number of meteors lit
up the sky. Lastly, the author shares
their own experience of watching a
meteor shower, connecting the
scientific explanation with a personal
observation.
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