Falling Stars?

Question

Is there a falling star?
I've never seen it...

Answer 1

Click on this blue link. Watch closely the little movie on the left. That is what a "falling star" or meteor looks like in the sky at night:

http://www.fotosearch.com/ATB260/spa124/

Here is a website with many videos of a special meteor one night in 1992. Click on each of the blue links to see different videos of the same "falling star". All of these videos were taken at school football games at the same time along the east coast of the United States:
http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/peekskill.htm

Answer 2

Well, there are no real falling stars. The streaks of light that people see in the sky are the dust, rocks, and other debris from space that fall to earth everyday. A more technical term for them are meteors (if they burn up completely and never hit the earth), or meteorites (if they wind up hitting the earth). This debris enters the Earth's atmosphere going so fast that it burns up from the friction between it and the atmosphere. Rubbing your hands together real fast will give you an good example of friction.

Don't give up on seeing meteors (falling stars). If your patient and have a fairly dark place to look, you will eventually see them!

Good-luck!

Answer 3

There is a falling star, but just one. You just have to look harder.

Answer 4

get out of the city and into the country away from lights during a meteor shower, you'll see them if you look up

Answer 5

meteorites! stars die they don't fall