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Shooting stars, other than being your make-believe lucky charms, collectively form meteor showers that originate from debris spewed off by comets. Astronomers at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute reported that they can now detect meteor showers from rare comets as old as 4000 years. According to the meteor shower survey published in the September edition of Icarus, these new …