Shooting Star

Shooting star is a common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere to become a meteor. As it enters the atmosphere the meteor burns up into flames. It wont land on the earth because it burns up until there is nothing left.

Shooting star may also refer to:

  • Shooting Star Children's Hospice, a UK children's charity
  • The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
  • Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
  • The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
  • Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
  • Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
  • Shooting Star Casino in Minnesota
  • Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
  • Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
  • A professional wrestling aerial technique
  • An algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph
  • Shooting star (candlestick pattern), pattern

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Famous quotes containing the words shooting and/or star:

    My time has come.
    There are twenty people in my belly,
    there is a magnitude of wings,
    there are forty eyes shooting like arrows,
    and they will all be born.
    All be born in the yellow wind.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
    This fallen star my milk sustains,
    This love that makes my heart’s blood stop
    Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
    And bids my hair stand up?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)