A student in your class whom you kind-of like asks you come to watch a meteor shower. What exactly are you being invited to?
A) something your mom would not approve of, involving streams of dirty water
B) the closest approach of an active bright comet to the Earth
C) a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the end of which you will be completely covered with dust particles from space
D) watching the left-over dirt from a comet burn up by friction as the pieces hit the Earth's atmosphere
E) something quite dangerous where you are likely to be hit when many larger rocks fall from above
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