Just saw my first EVER Shooting Star

[Rooster Cogburn Jr.]

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You can see a good weather radar on wunderground.com

 

[English Chick]

Somebody get pics!!!! I have never seen a shooting star! ....go get that camera ....................

 

[Rooster Cogburn Jr.]

They would be almost impossible to capture

 

[pdsavage]

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.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question12.html
Yes I know I ruined the magic of it all....

 

[Ducklove334]

A "falling star" or a "shooting star" has nothing at all to do with a star!

I think most everyone knows that

 

[pdsavage]

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I think most everyone knows that

You would be suprised at what people don't know.......Or you all ready knew that too

 

[Ducklove334]

funny story:

when i was little, one of my teachers in school was talking about a meteor shower, being falling "stars"

when my grandpa picked me up, I started crying because I told hm "the stars are gonna die" LOL