Shooting stars? EASY 10 POINTS?

Question

Does anybody know how frequently shooting stars happen?

where do you need to be to see them?

do they happen every night?

how can you tell if one is going to happen?

just general information on seeing shooting stars - all of it will be appreciated

easy 10 points thanks

Answer 1

Theres is no easy way to know if shooting stars are going to happen in your view. But you can see them all the time through a highpowered telescope.

Answer 2

'shooting stars' are just cosmic debri burning up in the atmosphere

no to all other questions

Answer 3

Shooting stars happen CONSTANTLY.

No they are not comets.

They are meteors.  

Meteors occur when foreign debris from space collides with our atmosphere and burns up.  What we see from the ground is a long streak of burning space rock.

The best viewing places are outside of a big city in a rural area.

Yes they happen every night.  The larger "Meteor Showers" occur at different times of the year in different magnitudes.

NASA says:

The next meteor shower is the Orionids  on October 21, 2008.

Name Date of Peak Moon Phase

Quadrantids January 4, morning Crescent, rises 4-5 a.m.

Lyrids night of April 21/22 almost Full

Eta Aquarids May 5, morning/evening New Moon

Perseids August 12, morning Sets around 2 a.m.

Orionids October 21, morning Rises around 1 a.m.

Leonids November 17, morning Rises late evening

Geminids December 13, evening Full Moon

Answer 4

Shooting stars are actually comets. They are sort of random and I don't think anyone's ever really bothered to predict them. Halley's comet happens every 76 years, but other than that they're pretty infrequent. You don't need to be anywhere in particular, and no they don't happen every night. Good luck with everything and happy Wednesday :0

Answer 5

A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up. The short-lived trail of light the burning meteoroid produces is called a meteor. Meteors are commonly called falling stars or shooting stars. If any part of the meteoroid survives burning up and actually hits the Earth, that remaining bit is then called a meteorite.

At certain times of year, you are likely to see a great number of meteors in the night sky. These events are called meteor showers and they occur when the Earth passes through the trail of debris left by a comet as it orbits the Sun. These showers are given names based on the constellation present in the sky from which they appear to originate. For example, the Leonid Meteor Shower, or Leonids, appear to originate in the constellation Leo. It is important to understand that the meteoroids (and therefore the meteors) do not really originate from the constellations or any of the stars in the constellations, however. They just seem to come from that part of the sky because of the way the Earth encounters the particles moving in the path of the comet's orbit. Associating the shower name with the region of the sky they seem to come from just helps

Answer 6

shooting stars don't happen everyday, it takes years.

shooting stars are actually comets, they're like planets revolving around the sun , when they get close to the sun, their ice tail evaporates, making a tail. they can be seen when they pass near the earth.

mostly, they are seen during the night, because during the day there is too much light from the sun.it can be anywhere.halley's comet, for example, appears every 68 or so years.if you want to see one wait for any anouncement coming from nasa or from the news.there is also meteor showers, they are asteroids floating in space and ignites when they are in the earth's gravitational field. they don't happen regularly.

Answer 7

Shooting stars are meteors; they are not comets.

They happen every night, and all you have to do is look up into the sky and be patient. There are certain times of the year (such as early August and early December) when they are much more common - these are known as Meteor Showers. At the height of a really dramatic shower, there might be one meteor per second, but this sort of show only happens about once every 50 years or so. Normally there is not more than one a minute even in a meteor shower.

Answer 8

Look at the Constellation Taurus always and you will see 5-10 every hour:)