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:
“... though it is by no means requisite that the American women should emulate the men in the pursuit of the whale, the felling of the forest, or the shooting of wild turkeys, they might, with advantage, be taught in early youth to excel in the race, to hit a mark, to swim, and in short to use every exercise which could impart vigor to their frames and independence to their minds.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“...indeed, star differs from star in glory.”
—Bible: New Testament, 1 Corinthians 15:41.