A shooting star is another name for a meteorite, small pieces of rock or ice passing through the upper atmosphere burning up as the air around them becomes thicker and creates friction. Some meteors dont burn up completely and land on earth
There is no opposite, A shooting star is a speck of dust from outer space burning up in the atmosphere from frictional heating.
a usually mistaken name for meteor is a shooting star
Okay, this is me (Nightrun1 aka the person who supmitied this question) and we are doing newspapers about space. Can anyone think of a good name for it??? I have some down below.... lol. Tell me your ideas, and if these ones are good. Thanks ;) The Shooting Star, Planet Daily, Forever Space,Uplifting Star
A shooting star in French is called "une étoile filante."
Asteroids are large pieces of rock, many big enough to be considered to be small planets. Shooting star is an incorrect name for a meteor. They have nothing to do with stars. They are small pieces of rock or dust that burn up in our atmosphere as they go through it. We seem them as something streaking across the sky in seconds.
A "shooting star" or a "falling star".
Meteor is another word for shooting star. Meteorite, meteoroid and fireball are additional synonyms for shooting star.
Shooting Star's birth name is Heminger, Louis.
A meteor. If any of it survives the fall through the atmosphere and makes it to Earth, that part is a meteorite.
the name of a lucky star is a shooting star
Shooting stars are actually objects burning in the Earth's atmosphere. The name "shooting star" originates from ancient times (before advanced scientific investigation) when these burning meteors were though to actually be stars shooting across the night sky. Those that survive and crash onto the Earth's surface are then called meteorites.
Basically another name for a neutron star.
A piece of space debris burning up in the atmosphere creating a streak of light across the sky that looks like a star falling... or shooting, as it were.
There is no opposite, A shooting star is a speck of dust from outer space burning up in the atmosphere from frictional heating.
cysalist star
there is none in space
Mercury