While meteor showers always happen on the same day of the month on your island in Animal Crossing, real meteor showers are not quite as regular. When many meteors pass through our night sky at once, we call it a meteor shower! It is at this time, when meteoroids are falling through Earth’s atmosphere, that they are called meteors. Meteoroids eventually fall toward Earth, entering our atmosphere and burning across the sky. This debris, which spreads out along the path of the comet, is then known as a meteoroid. When a comet, a cosmic ball of dirt and ice, approaches the sun and heats up, it also begins to break up. Image Credit: Uploaded by Nookipedia user Liana, Used under fair use.īefore talking about meteor showers, we first need to understand the terminology. The star shines bigger and the player closes their eyes to make a wish. A player making a wish on a shooting star during a meteor shower in New Horizons. Let’s take a look at the meteor showers that happen above your island. However, I’d like to turn your attention skyward. Many players have written about the punnet squares of flower breeding, and others have made videos about all the animals in Blathers’s museum (even the bugs!). Animal Crossing has proven again and again to be an exquisitely well-designed game and has surprised many with its excellent representation of scientific concepts.
