The radiant of a meteor shower is:
A) the apparent vanishing point of the parallel orbital paths of meteoroids.
B) the location at which a meteor explodes in the atmosphere.
C) the radius of a meteoroid's orbit around the sun.
D) the radius of a meteoroid's orbit around the Earth.

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The radiant of a meteor shower is the point in the sky from which the meteors in the shower appear to originate, due to the parallel trajectory of the meteoroids that enter Earth's atmosphere. It is not related to the explosion of meteors nor the orbital radius of meteoroids.

The Radiant of a Meteor Shower Is