What makes a shooting star shoot.....????

Question

How does it fall and why???

Answer 1

It is not a real star. Shooting stars are particles of dust or rock that enter Earth's atmosphere. Due to their high speed and the friction, the particles are heated to such a degree that they begin to glow. This is the glow that can be seen.

Because originally their nature was unknown, people thought they were stars, so they called them shooting (or falling) stars. The modern name is meteors.

Answer 2

Shooting stars are not really stars.  They are meteors burning in our atmosphere. Stars don't fall.

Answer 3

A shooting star is the same thing as a meteor.

A meteor is a [usually small] peice of material from space that falls into our atmosphere.  The friction of entering our atmosphere causes it to heat up and eventually burn up.

Most natural meteors are barely bigger than a grain of sand.  Some "meteors" are actually "space junk" left over from dead satellites and space shuttle missions.

If the meteor is big enough that it does not burn all the way up, and it actually hits the ground, then it is called a "meteorite".  These are VERY valuable, if you can find them!

EDIT:

What part of "falling" don't you understand?

Things "fall" because gravity causes it. ANYTHING that is in orbit will eventually "fall" out of orbit, unless it has "attitude control thrusters" to push it back "up" -- This would imply space shuttles, space stations, and satellites.

Somtimes rocks, sand, and dust from space get close enough to earth that our gravity catches them, and they "fall", too.

Exactly where they come from is unknown.  They just come from space.

Answer 4

It falls by gravity.

Answer 5

shooting star=fall asteroid... when an asteroid gets caught by our atmospere its burning up and the friction causes a shine and so they are called shooting stars since they are falling (shooting) and look as bright as stars but they are just dust, rock, and other space junk...

Answer 6

A so-called shooting star is, of course not a star at all, but a small particle of interplanetary dust entering, heating up with friction, and burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.

Thousands of particles of such dust come into the atmosphere every day as the Earth runs into them in its orbit around the Sun. It is only the larger particles that make the "shooting-star" display. The really largest chunks may well survive to hit the ground and those are what we call meteorites.

Answer 7

A shooting star does not just fall without reason. My answer is correct, it is definitely correct. I will give you  my answer then i will give you tangible evidence. Meteor is a rock that is thrown by the angels at the Jin who is eavesdropping on the discussions of the angels in the heavens. Look at the proof below. MUST watch all the videos in-order to be convinced. This is not an attempt to brainwash you but a simple attempt to convey the truth. Reason well.

Answer 8

Geez third grade science again. A shooting star is a meteor that has been trapped by earth's gravity and is pulled in to the atmosphere at about 35,000 miles per hour it burns up in the atmosphere. Some of them survive to strike the earth then they are called meteorites.  

Answer 9

G-R-A-V-I-T-Y and friction

"shooting stars" are pieces of extraterrestrial rock that have been caught by the earths gravity.  the friction of the rocks moving against the earth's atmosphere produces the glow that we see

Answer 10

i dunno

Answer 11

Shooting stars are simply meteorites and they don't 'shoot'. All meteors are, are bits of rock about the size of a golfball. When they enter earth's atmosphere, in simple terms, they catch fire and burn up.