Showers of Shooting Stars or Meteors Are Seen at Regular

Multiple Choice

Showers of shooting stars or meteors are seen at regular times each year on Earth because:

A) Earth passes through the fringes of the asteroid belt at these times.
B) Earth is bombarded by material, including dust grains, ejected from the Sun during regular sunspot activity.
C) Earth runs into material within the spiral arm structure of the Milky Way at these times.
D) Earth passes through a cloud of remnant dust and rock fragments from an old comet that is circling the Sun in the comet's old orbit.