where do shooting stars go?

Question

LIke after they go by on the sky what happens to them?

Answer 1

they desintegrate.

Answer 2

Well, some of the stars keep going and either fly off into space until they eventually die or they will be so close to the sun that they will break up. A shooting star is really a comet. Most comets will come around once and never be seen again but rarely do we see a comet like Haley's Comet come around more than once or even a few times. I will educate you about comets. A comet has a nucleus. The "ball" that surrounds the nucleus is made up of ice and rock. The tail that makes you think that it's a "shooting star" is the ice melting because of how fast the comet is going. The tail always points away from the sun. As I said before, normally a comet will come around maybe a couple of times and then blow up and will never be seen again. Did you know that the first time Haley's Comet was seen was in 230 B.C. in China? Some are comets but most shooting stars are meteors. They break up if they get into a planet's atmosphere that is gaseous as well. Well then, now you are mostly educated about the origins of a comet. Here's a website you can go to to find more information about comets below:

Answer 3

do you remember history when the astronauts hit the golf ball off of the moon way back in the 60's
it is supposed to still be going and going, unless it hit something..so if the shooting star comes in at a shallow angle it will bounce right off and keep going and going until it hits something and if it never hits anything, it will keep going...but the ones that come in at a sharper angle, it will possibly burn completely up and just about nothing will hit the earth, but some are actually large enough to make it through the atmosphere and it will hit some where and do not forget earth has most of its surface as water, so that may be why we do not find a lot of them..
and when you see on in the shy, make a wish as it goes by, and in time your wish may come true, if you believe it is true...

good luck
smile

Answer 4

Shooting stars are not stars but rocks and meteors that enter the earth's atmosphere. They glow from the intense heat and air friction they experience during entry in the atmosphere. Generally, shooting stars burn up before they hit the ground. If they do make it, then it is called a meteorite.

Answer 5

Shooting stars are typically just space dust that heats up and burns due to air resistance as it pass through earth's atmosphere. It is possible for larger rocks to survive and make it to the ground, but most just burn completely up in a matter of seconds.

Answer 6

shooting stars are nothing but meteors which gets attracted to earths grvity and enters the atmosphere.now,what actually happens is, the meteor comes rushing towards the earths surface due to its gravitational pull.while falling, the particles of the meteor collide with the particles present in the earth's atmosphere,and this produces an opposition force known as friction.the heat produced during this process is so immence that the whole of meteor gets burnt up before reaching the earth's surface.
with heat light is also produced which we see as a tiny white line in the night sky.this happens in seconds.so we are able to see the spark for a very short period of time.
but,if the meteor is very large to get burnt up completly, it may some times reach the earth's crust.these are then known as meteorites

Answer 7

Shooting stars are meteorites. Most burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. The largest hit the surface of the Earth and form craters like the one in Arizona. Really bright meteorites are also called "fireballs."

Answer 8

They go to Shooting Star Heaven!! Hooray for them!!!, no seriously they burn up in the atmosphere as they get closer to the surface of a planet that has a gaseous atmosphere

Answer 9

They either burn up in the atmosphere, hit the ground, or bounce off the atmosphere and continue on through space.

Shooting stars are really meteors.

Answer 10

The get smaller while passing through our atmosphere. They either:
1) land on earth
2) disappear before they hit earth
3) pass through our atmosphere and continur going in another direction
4) disappear in out atmosphere while going in a non-collission course with Earth.

Answer 11

Most of them burn up in the atmosphere; that's what you're seeing. Sometimes a small part will actually make it to the earth---that's known as a meteorite.