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 star, shooting and/or star:
“Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader’s mind, or miss it;Mbut talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can’t help hitting it.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)