Also known as: SS., SS-
SS has various meanings in the Astronomy category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of SS in Astronomy.
A shooting star, known formally as a meteor, is the visible passage of a glowing meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet or asteroid through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via rapid motion and sometimes via shedding glowing material in its wake.
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