A typical shooting star in a meteor shower is caused by a ________ entering Earth's atmosphere

A) boulder-size particle from an asteroid
B) boulder-size particle from a comet
C) pea-size particle from an asteroid
D) pea-size particle from a comet
E) microscopic particle of interstellar dust


D

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A.

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