Do shooting stars land on earth or other planets?

Answer 1

Actually , the stars do not become shooting stars. There are many astroids in the space. Some are huge some are small...the size of foot ball. These are like stones floating in the space. When such asteroid comes near earth, it gets attracted towards it due to gravity. As it enters the atmosphere, it becomes very hot due to the friction between it and the air ans it starts to burn. This is what we call a shooting star.

Answer 2

Almost all "shooting stars" are meteors entering the Earth's atmosphere. Most burn up, while some reach the ground as meteorites. Very rarely, a meteor will skip off the atmosphere, although being heated enough to visibly glow.

Answer 3

A shooting star is another word for a meteor, they are bits of space debris falling into the earth's atmosphere and burning up. They are moving very fast because of the innate velocity they have orbiting the sun (kinetic energy) and because they are falling into earth's gravity well (turning potential energy into kinetic energy).

Answer 4

Space. Space is full of particles floating around varying in varying sizes when one of these particles falls onto the earth it heats up as a result of its friction through the atmosphere and you see what is known as a shooting star. most of these you would never see because they are too small. every once in a while pieces are big enough to make it all the way to earth with out burning up completely.

Answer 5

From what i have learned is when a shooting star falls to eatrh is when the star gets too close to earth the gravity pulls it and a what you call a star which is a metor on fire falls to earth and its suppose to be good luck. Hope I could help. :)

Answer 6

First of all, there's something I have to make sure you understand: The streaks

of light in the night sky called "shooting stars" are NOT stars. They're tiny things

cruising around in the solar system on their own, usually wreckage left over from a

comet, still sailing around the sun in the orbit of the comet they came from. They're

typically specks of dust, grains of sand, and small stones. When the Earth runs

into them, they fall through the air, and just the friction of falling fast enough

through air incinerates them, so that most of them are completely burned up and

never reach the ground.

Before the Earth runs into these things, they're called 'meteoroids'.

When one becomes visible while it burns, it's called a 'meteor'.

If there's anything left of it, the piece that reaches the ground is called a 'meteorite'.

Most museums have some meteorites on display.

Answer 7

A 'shooting star' is a dust particle, sand grain, stone, or rock heated to incandescence

by friction during its fall through the earth's atmosphere. If there's anything left of it

at the end of its fall, it ends up as a cold stone, either on the ground, or in the hole it

digs when it hits the ground.

Answer 8

"Shooting stars" is one of the names given to a meteor, which is the glowing incandescent trail caused by a space rock as it falls through the Earth's atmosphere.

Most meteors, or "shooting stars", completely vaporize in the atmosphere or explode into dust. Some meteors, however, do survive the journey and hit the Earth, becoming meteorites.

Answer 9

SHOOTING STARS ARE NOT STARS!!! They are meteorites burning up in the atmosphere.

Answer 10

They aren't shooting "stars" they're just pieces of rock that enter the Earths' atmosphere ad burn up/bounce back into space.