Shooting Star

Actor

Sisseton, South Dakota, USA

A shooting star, known formally as a meteor, is the visible passage of a glowing meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet or asteroid through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via rapid motion and sometimes via shedding glowing material in its wake. The visible streak of light is what gives a meteor the colloquially known name "a shooting star". If large enough, a meteor can fall to sea or land and is then a meteorite. Shooting star may also refer to:
A shooting star, known formally as a meteor, is the visible passage of a glowing meteoroid, micrometeoroid, comet or asteroid through Earth's atmosphere, after being heated to incandescence by collisions with air molecules in the upper atmosphere, creating a streak of light via rapid motion and sometimes via shedding glowing material in its wake. The visible streak of light is what gives a meteor the colloquially known name "a shooting star". If large enough, a meteor can fall to sea or land and is then a meteorite. Shooting star may also refer to: