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Why do shooting stars happen?

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Why do shooting stars happen?

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“Shooting stars” are not stars at all, but are tiny bodies (pea size or smaller) from interplanetary space which enter the Earth’s atmosphere and are heated to incandescence. Most vapourize within a second or two, but a few are large enough to survive and fall to Earth as meteorites.

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Shooting stars are asteroids that plummet into the earths atmosphere. We see them as a shooting star because we see them get burned up as they are coming down. The atmosphere burns it up which makes us see a shooting star. It happens at daytime aswell but the lighting cannot make us see this happen.

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A shooting start is just a bit of a broken off meteorite falling to earth.

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A shooting star is actually a piece of space debris crashing into the earths atmosphere, and it enters the atmosphere it burns up and turns into dust.

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when a meteor enters the Earth’s atmosphere it burns up leaving a trail of luminosity which we call a ”shooting star”

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