Shooting Star

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Shooting star or Falling star is the common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere to become a meteor. If a shooting star survives impact with the Earth's surface, then it is called a meteorite.

Shooting star may also refer to:

• P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
• T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
• Shooting Star Children's Hospice, a UK children's charity
• The Shooting Star, a Tintin adventure
• Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
• Tecumseh, whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
• The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
• Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival

In music:

• Shooting Star (band)
• Shooting Star (album), an album by the band of the same name
• Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album), a 1978 album
• Shooting Stars, an album by Dollar
• "Shooting Star" (David Rush song), a song by Young Boss, featuring Kevin Rudolf and rapper Pitbull
• "Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song), a song by Air Traffic
• "Shooting Star" (Bad Company song), a song by Bad Company
• "Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song), a song by Deepest Blue

In film and television:

• Shooting Stars, a British comedy television show
• Shooting Stars (Singapore television series)
• "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a sixth-season episode of CSI

Shooting star may also be:

• Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
• A professional wrestling aerial technique
• An algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph

See also:

• Shooting Star (song) for a list of songs called Shooting Star
• Shooting Stars FC, a Nigerian football club

References

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