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Does the atmosphere help prevent meteor showers?
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Does the atmosphere help prevent meteor showers?

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yes because by time the meteor gets through the atmosphere it's been shrunken and it's alot smaller then it would be if there was no atmosphere
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Pretty much, yes. They burn up in the atmosphere, usually far higher than the ozone layer.
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