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Tragectory of meteor with Google earth
- lutusp 14y agoSaw this yesterday, and it was wrong yesterday. Meteors don't travel in straight lines, they follow curved paths under the influence of gravity. And their velocity changes rather rapidly as they enter the atmosphere because much of their kinetic energy is converted to heat by friction. The second effect (heating and energy loss) causes the curvature of the first effect (gravitation) to change as well.