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smoke trail comparison table

Subject	has definition	has composition	has time of occurence	is a kind of	produce produce light	has duration	has destination
meteor event	The event in a sequence of the events during the passage of a meteor. They are in order : incandescent flight fireball smoke trail meteoroid break up retardation point dark flight meteorite impact			impact event
smoke trail	condensation of vaporized rock removed from the surface of a meteoroid by ablation	tiny roughly spherical micrometeorites	when meteoroid collides with atmosphere	meteor event	visible only at night	hours	surface of celestial body

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