Empirical Earth · The Sky — Sun, Moon & Stars

Meteors do appear to rise — “they only ever fall” is false

The claim

“Meteors never appear to move upward, so they aren’t falling from space.”

What is measured

Meteors with an upward component are ordinary and photographed. The claim that they “never rise” is factually wrong, and the perspective that produces them is the very geometry the globe-and-orbit model predicts.

What would show this is wrong

a rigorous all-sky survey establishing that meteor trails are statistically forbidden from ever showing an upward component, which the existing shower photographs already refute.

Sources

  1. Meteors that appear to move upward. Contrary to the flat-Earth claim that meteors only ever fall, photographic studies of showers such as the Geminids record meteors with a clear upward comp link
  2. Meteor showers, radiants and earthgrazers. Annual showers recur as Earth crosses a comet- or asteroid-shed debris stream; meteors diverge from a radiant, and shallow “earthgrazer” entries ne link
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