SHOOTING STARS
The UK-China Leonid Meteor Shower
Observation Project

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"They're up there" said her mother, and pointed to the sky.

Bing-Bing followed her mother's paw. She could see little clouds, the crescent moon, and the stars. So many stars. There were stars twinkling on their own, others close together, and still more in a great sparkly, powdery band across the sky. She tried moving her head to see if Mummy's friends were hiding behind the clouds and the stars, but she couldn't see them.

Her Mummy laughed gently. "The stars are my friends Bing-Bing. One night I couldn't sleep either, and your Grandmother brought me here and showed me the sky, and taught me all about the stars. That's when they became my friends. Tonight, they can be your friends too up there in
"THE BUSY SKY".

"But to understand the sky, Bing-Bing we need first to understand the Earth we live on. The Earth is really a giant ball floating in space, surrounded by the sky. We call it a planet, and every year it goes round the Sun once, and comes back to where it started, on its journey though space. We call this an ORBIT. Every time you have a birthday, the Earth has gone once round the Sun! We go round the Sun at a distance of 150 million kilometres. If we were any closer to the Sun we would be too hot, and further away we would be too cold.

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