Can shooting stars kill people

Answer 1

So-called shooting stars are actually bits of dust, dirt or debris in space that gets into our atmosphere and burns. As this happens they give the effect of a piece of light shooting across the sky, which people call falling or shooting stars, but which are in fact meteors. Most of them burn up in the atmosphere. Sometimes some bits get right through and land on Earth, where they are called meteorites. In theory they could hit someone, but as they are usually so small, they would do little damage. There are alleged reports of people being killed, though they are difficult to substantiate. There are also reports of animals having being hit and killed, but again these are extremely rare and difficult to sustantiate too.