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Show "Falling Start" So-called fulling stars, otherwise known as "shooting stars," are minute planetary bodies raised to Incandescence Incandes-cence by the resistance offered to tl.elr motion by the earth's atmosphere. Over a hundred millions, Including those telescoplcally visible, are estimated esti-mated to be swept up dally by our planet, yet with no sensible Increase of Its niHss, the vast majority of these cosmic particles weighing probably only a small fraction of an ounce. They fall about twice as thickly In the morning as In the evening hours, because be-cause the advancing side of the globe Is fully exposed to their bombardment, bombard-ment, while the hemisphere behind Is sheltered from It |