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A shooting star is not a star. It is a small piece of dust or rock from space which hits our atmosphere. Friction causes it to heat up and this ionizes the air along its path, making the air glow. Most of them are completely vaporized by this process, and are called meteors. If it should be big enough to reach the ground it is called a meteorite. People call them shooting stars because they look like stars and they shoot across the sky.
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What do people call meteors?
Shooting stars or falling stars.
How do some stars become shooting stars?
Shooting stars are not stars. They are bits of dirt and dust that burn up in our atmosphere, briefly making them look like stars. Most of that is debris is from comets or others bits of dirt in space, but they are not stars and were not stars. So stars do not become shooting stars.
How are friction and shooting stars related?
Because the lights we call shooting stars are pieces of space rubble that are heated to glowing/burning by friction against the upper atmosphere
When was Night of the Shooting Stars created?
Night of the Shooting Stars was created in 2001.
Do shooting stars collide with other stars?
Shooting stars are not stars. They are bits of dirt and dust that burn up in our atmosphere. As they fly through our atmosphere they briefly look stars, which is how the names shooting or falling stars have come about, but they are not stars. Were such a piece of dirt to head toward a star, it would burn up long before it got anywhere close to it, so it could not hit it. A shooting star is usually what most call meteors and burn up in earths atmosphere giving the appearance of a falling star.
What do some people call meteors?
Shooting stars or falling stars.
What do people call meteors?
Shooting stars or falling stars.
What are some famous shooting stars?
meteorites
How do some stars become shooting stars?
Shooting stars are not stars. They are bits of dirt and dust that burn up in our atmosphere, briefly making them look like stars. Most of that is debris is from comets or others bits of dirt in space, but they are not stars and were not stars. So stars do not become shooting stars.
How are friction and shooting stars related?
Because the lights we call shooting stars are pieces of space rubble that are heated to glowing/burning by friction against the upper atmosphere
Do stars fall from space?
No. What we call falling or shooting stars are just bits of dirt burning up in our atmosphere as they travel through it.
What is the duration of Shooting Stars?
The duration of Shooting Stars is 1800.0 seconds.
When did Toronto Shooting Stars end?
Toronto Shooting Stars ended in 1998.
When was Toronto Shooting Stars created?
Toronto Shooting Stars was created in 1996.
When did Shooting Stars end?
Shooting Stars ended on 2011-09-12.
When was Night of the Shooting Stars created?
Night of the Shooting Stars was created in 2001.
When was Oxford Shooting Stars created?
Oxford Shooting Stars was created in 2010.
