It is said that when shooting stars appear whatever we wish for comes true. Is this true ?

Question

I haven't seen a shooting star in my life before have you ever ? If yes have you wished ?

Answer 1

My mom and brother work at NASA. We've been able to visit astronaut’s homes where we star gazed with their awesome equipment. I've seen many shooting stars. But they don't make wishes come true, I'm sorry.

Answer 2

If you do wish on a star, it won't happen unless someone decides to let that thing happen, whether it's you, someone else, or a dried up leaf that the wind blows past a squirrel that picks up a nut that it brings into your front lawn, which you see out the window and then you realize you're not doing anything productive and decide to do something that somehow causes the thing you wished to come true. Don't ask how many baggies of weed i've smoked today.

Answer 3

I've seen numerous...

Just look up any astronomy website for the schedule of the next meteorite showers, and see if you can spot them from where you live. Sometimes the weather report mentions them.

Looks like the Orionids are next, 20-21 Oct. In November 16-17, the Leonids, and in December 13-14 the Geminids. They can put on quite a show!

Answer 4

Its just a myth...a shooting star is just a tail of a meteor that's passing by earth's atmosphere....but its a nice thought to believe that wishing on a shooting star can make your wishes come true.

Answer 5

There are many little chunks of rock present in space. Their sizes range typically from the size of a grain of dust to the size of a golf ball (the latter being more impressive in the night sky, but also more rare). As the Earth moves around the Sun, it will run ito some of these small rocks that collide with the atmosphere at great velocities. Going through the atmosphere they begin to heat up, start to glow, and then burn down. This is what we see when we look at a shooting star (which we call a meteor).

There are millions of such particles colliding with the atmosphere every day (I mean day and night). But since you can only see them at night, and you can only look at a small part of the sky at once, when stargazing you can expect to see a shooting star every 10 to 15 minutes.

This is on a regular night. When we get meteor showers, we get many more. A meteor shower happens when the Earth goes through a region of space that is especially filled with dust and chunks of rock. Therefore we get many more meteors at these times. More precisely, meteor showers happen when Earth, on its way around the Sun, passes through the path of a comet. That's because as a comet orbits near the Sun, it starts to melt down and ejects on its path lots of dust and chunks of rock. The yearly meteor showers are caused by this. In any given night, you can also see more shooting stars (in fact about twice as many) just before dawn. That's because at dawn we are facing the direction in which the Earth is moving, so we intercept more of the stuff in space.

Answer 6

no this is not true, if it were the whole population of the earth would be sitting outside waiting for a shooting star, which isn't actually a star but a meteor burning up while entering our atmosphere

Answer 7

there is only one shooting star which comes near earth but that shooting star comes in every 76 years and last time it came on 1986 so that time i was not even bornt and my parents were not even married so i could not see the star but it is true that if u wish your wish comes true

Answer 8

From "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

...he plucked up his courage to ask the king a favor:

"I should like to see a sunset... do me that kindness... Order the sun to set..."

"If I ordered a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragic drama, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order that he had received, which one of us would be in the wrong?" the king demanded. "The general, or myself?"

"You," said the little prince firmly.

"Exactly. One much require from each one the duty which each one can perform," the king went on. "Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. If you ordered your people to go and throw themselves into the sea, they would rise up in revolution. I have the right to require obedience because my orders are reasonable."

"Then my sunset?" the little prince reminded him: for he never forgot a question once he had asked it.

"You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But, according to my science of government, I shall wait until conditions are favorable."

"When will that be?" inquired the little prince. "Hum! Hum!" replied the king; and before saying anything else he consulted a bulky almanac. "Hum! Hum! That will be about... about... that will be this evening about twenty minutes to eight. And you will see how well I am obeyed."

Answer 9

I don't know-being from the city, whenever I did see a shooting star, I was too enthralled by it to remember to actually make a wish...LOL!

Answer 10

I saw a shooting star once, and I wished the girl I had a crush on would fall in love with me. Didn't happen. q.e.d.