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smoke trail
subject			fact

smoke trail	has composition tiny roughly spherical micrometeorites
	has duration hours
	has destination surface of celestial body
	can produce produce light visible only at night
	has time of occurence when meteoroid collides with atmosphere
	has definition condensation of vaporized rock removed from the surface of a meteoroid by ablation
	is a kind of meteor event
impact event	can produce a crater
event	has synonym world point
	has time of occurrence