where do falling stars go?

Question

me and my friend saw six on our walk home. we were just curious.

Answer 1

hello :)
well... it doesnt go... it is continuing its way till you can not see it anymore or it is just loosing its energy and stay where it is.

Answer 2

Hundreds of meteors (falling or shooting stars) strike the earth's atmosphere every day. A fair number of them bounce off the atmosphere and back out into space. Most of them don't, though. Those that don't pass through the atmosphere and get super heated by the air friction. Those are the ones you see at night. Some of them fall to the earth as lumps of rock or metallic meteorites. Others burn up in the atmosphere and disintegrate. Their ashes and dust fall to the earth is a very gentle fashion.
I do not recall the exact figure at this moment, but I once read that the earth gains several tons of mass every day as a result of meteor activity.

Answer 3

Moses above me is being a *** and isn't even giving a answer that anyone could understand...

falling or shooting stars aren't really stars. they are usually just large chunks of rock or ice (meteors) that are hauling butt in space. They might eventually hit something or they just might keep going in a huge circle until we can see them again. Some are small and they break up. Everyday small ones enter out atmosphere and break up before they hit earth. You can tell if it is in out atmosphere because it doesn't look like a "shooting star" so much as a ball of fire in the sky. I have seen that before.. it looks crazy. But don't worry about being hit by one.. the chances are more likely you'll win the lottery and get hit by lightning twice in the same day!

Answer 4

Most falling stars are small, I mean really small (like grains of sand) so they disintegrate in the atmosphere. If the atmosphere is strong enough to rip apart a shuttle, a grain of sand is no problem. Those that DO make it to earth, just land like rocks. There have been examples where they have hit houses, cars (but usually, they just fall harmlessly onto the ground.

Answer 5

There not really stars, Those things you see at night sending streaks of light across the sky are in fact tiny sand grained sized dust particles and tiny bits of minerals from the tails of comets we are passing through, as well as bits of falling 'space junk' we have put up there!..Almost none of this ever reach the surface of the earth, they enter the atmosphere at about 6 kilometres per second or faster, and the friction of the air burns them up!.Mind you, about once every 50 million years a really big one, about 10 kilometres or bigger hits the Earth, as one did in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from Texas 65 million years ago and went and wiped out the poor old dinosaurs!..Were overdue for another one right now!.......

Answer 6

they are not stars, but meteorites that are burning up in the earths atmosphere. it is the same as a meteor shower, but only one or two instead of dozens. so to answer your question, they don't fall anywhere, they burn up. if it is big enough, part of it may make it thru the atmosphere, then it would fall to earth.

Answer 7

falling stars are exactly that falling. they must keep falling or they aren't.
if they ever arrived anywhere they would have to stop then wouldn't be falling stars.

rite.

think of meteors.

lack of knowledge like this just burns me up.

Answer 8

They will fall until they hit the ground of other planet. If they don't hit, they will keep falling into bottomless pit.

Answer 9

Virtually all of them burn up prior to hitting the ground.

Answer 10

stars cannot fall, what you saw were comets

Answer 11

On my lawn...I hit them all the time with my lawnmower...lots of broken windows on my house.!