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Why do shooting stars?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 3/15/2022

"Shooting stars" is a slang term for meteors and meteorites. They seem to shoot across the sky because when they fall into our atmosphere from outer space, they get so hot that they burn up. A meteorite is a meteor that makes it all the way down and lands on Earth.

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