Meteorites: The Science Behind Shooting Stars 

April 24, 2024  •  EPISODE 219

Discover the science behind shooting stars and meteorites in this illuminating episode of ScienceLIVE. Explore how light years work and how light travels across vast distances. Find out what it would mean to travel faster than light and how it could let us look back in time. Plus, hear from an Acellus student who discovered not one, but two meteorites!

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Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology. As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.


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86 Comments

  1. Sam Davis

    Why is it named Beetlegeuse?

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  2. Max Pula

    how big is the sun

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  3. Sadie Small

    Funny impression

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  4. Sadie Small

    I’ve seen Fools Gold. It’s pretty cool!

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  5. Elijah Lewis

    I am excited to see the new launch of science live!

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  6. Josiah lewis

    I really enjoyed learning about wave length and frequency! It was fascinating to learn that we cannot actually see violet

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  7. Skye Simoni

    I love the Science Live videos:)

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  8. Skylar

    Why is Pluto not a planet it’s still there it’s not leaving it maybe be on the last ring but Pluto does a lot for our solar system

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  9. Skylar

    Why is Pluto not planet?

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  10. Rose

    Would we die if the earth orbits around the sun faster?

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  11. Jacob Robertson

    I think it is cool that electricity can provide oxygen for submarines.

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  12. Dakota Bruce

    I cannot wait to see if we really discover Planet X, or if it really does not exist.

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  13. Noah Bush

    I really enjoyed this video; my favorite part was about the submarines and the boy who found 2 meteorites

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  14. Dillon Lampley

    Science videos are great

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  15. Dalton Lampley

    I love watching Science Live

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  16. Sherif Ray

    Are there anymore stuff out there in space that was never heard of?

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  17. Libby

    I really wonder if we will ever discover if planet x is real or not!

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  18. Bradley Fenton

    I love learning about space!

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  19. Keilany Erazo Zelaya

    This explains ALOT

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  20. Shoshanna

    shooting stars are very pretty

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  21. Ruth

    i really enjoy watching the science live videos

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  22. Anthony huitt

    These videos are really enjoyable and very interesting

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  23. Abigail Chaney

    you think Pluto will ever be reconsidered as a planet again

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  24. Ottoniel velez

    learning more about Pluto was very interesting.

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  25. Abigail Chaney

    he’s super lucky that he saw a meteorite

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  26. Uzziah Hill

    I wonder if we are going to discover new planets soon though.

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  27. Jamie

    Maybe we all can go IN PERSON?!

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  28. ashton

    yas

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  29. Christian Bryant

    I love that I get to learn more cool stuff that I never knew 🙂

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  30. Aria Sawyer

    Planet X seems cool.

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  31. Emily Morales

    i love live sciences

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  32. Janat bajwa

    I wonder if we will discover planet x or not. This video is so cool!

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  33. Tirut Chandarasupsang

    I love it

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  34. Grifffin McIntyre

    where was the Manhattan Project building exactly?

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  35. Khloe Robinson.

    Love science! So exited to see the exploration of new planets.

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  36. Josiah Alkire

    I have fools gold, it takes your breath away! I am doing research to see if one of my rocks is a meteor, and I am 50⁒ sure that it is one.

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  37. Nicole Roman Ortiz

    The first submarine was nice, very interesting the way it functions.

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  38. Madison Stevens

    I have learned so much from watching these Science Live videos. Please keep them coming! Knowledge is Power!

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  39. Creed Radford

    Great video loved learning about the meteorites.

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  40. Matthew Cheek

    I can’t wait to see if planet x exists or not

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  41. MaKaylin Delph

    Some meteorites are chunks of the moon.

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  42. Giannah lejeune

    how would they lower down the system?

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  43. Liam Steiner

    This was a funny one.

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  44. sarah chriest

    Planet X is so interesting.

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  45. Aria sawyer

    I can’t wait to learn more about Planet X, it seems so mysterious

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  46. Khorde Forney

    This was really cool!

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  47. Natasha Galyean

    Shooting stars are so beautiful and I’m glad I got to learn more about them!

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  48. Karsten Kaufman

    i love this school

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  49. Karsten Kaufman

    How big is the sun?

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  50. Maxwell O'Malley

    This was s funny episode!

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  51. Elexi Harris

    I wonder if analyzing the positions of objects in the Kuiper Belt would allow us to determine where planet 9 should be. Then all you would have to do is look and see if it’s there.

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  52. Adrian Reece

    Speaking of meteors there is a meteor that is going to come close to the earth people are calling it the new moon

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  53. Beatriz Nguyễn

    Cool video!
    We enjoyed watching it and learned a lot.

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  54. Kaliyah

    Wow, Pluto is considered a dwarf planet

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  55. zachie

    how many people will it take to fill up earth?

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  56. Harley l r Bradley

    i like r 51 he is a good techer and we shuld have him arawn more

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  57. Lorelai Jones

    I love science

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  58. Devin Tolliver

    This episode was awesome! Keep up the good work!

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  59. Lorelai Jones

    why did they name it planet x ?

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  60. baocong

    It is the most interesting video ever seen in my lifetime.

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  61. Leantwan

    Fun fact: People often get hit by meteorites. Another thing here, there’s only been one meteor that was believed to hit a car and that person got famous and the car too. How interesting tell us more information about these comets

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  62. Max McCall

    If the submarines where ran of diesel engines how did the air in the submarine not get polluted

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  63. Lam Khanh Tran

    Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  64. Owen Stokes

    What will the new planet be called if it is discovered?

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  65. Owen Stokes

    What will planet x be called if it’s discovered?

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  66. Shoshanna

    love this.

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  67. Giovanni

    wow I hope the people are okay rare fire ball 😮‍💨

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  68. Milan Kuplack

    why is the star called BEETLEGEUSE ?

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  69. Lilli

    I really enjoyed this episode!

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  70. Noah

    Yes all the video are very cool

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  71. Lily

    is planet X a real planet??????????????????????????

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  72. jxhr skibidi

    yooooo this is fire keep up the work

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  73. Cam

    This new episode is pretty cool.

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  74. Cam

    Who does Acellus

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  75. Cam

    Does the sun have a gravitational pull in order to keep the planets in orbit.

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  76. Johnathan Higgs

    I learned a lot, it was good .

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  77. Vedha

    If planet X was real I wonder if people could live on it.

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  78. Noah

    I really enjoyed this episode!!!

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  79. Carmelo

    I liked when Tobias was giving details about the submarine.

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  80. Cairo

    I liked when they we’re showing us the shiny rocks.

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  81. Auna Emily

    how fast can light go?

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  82. Auna Emily

    i love these episodes so Much

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  83. bulbapidia

    awesome

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  84. Samuel Sedore

    I loved this episode

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  85. Samuel Sedore

    planet x is cool

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  86. Maxe

    If only we can warp to planet X.

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