Do shooting stars really shoot out of the sky and still light when they land?

Answer 1

Shooting stars are peices of rock metal or ice that burn up in the atmosphere. If they land then we call them meteorites and the like.

Answer 2

A shooting star is a meteor. It is usually a small piece of rock or metal such as iron or nickle.
A meteor is a piece of material traveling at high speed. Its source may be an exploded asteroid or from some chunk of a comet that had been struch and broke off. The velocity varies but could easily be over 100 thousand miles per hour. It isn't visible until it strikes our atmosphere. They are usually very small. Most are probably smaller than a golf ball but are very bright when they burn. It has NO light of its own.
Most never touch the earth. They are consumed before they hit the ground, but if large enough to survive their fiery entry through the atmosphere they can be, and are found on occasion. When cool, they usually look like an uneven rock that has been melted and re-solidified. Dull, not glowing, assuming it has cooled.

Answer 3

Shooting stars are little peices of asteroids or comets that were caught in earths atmosphere and fell down to the surface, if they burn up completly then it is called a meteor, if it actually hits land then it is a meteorite...

Answer 4

Shooting stars are falling rocks or dust. They usually burn in the atmosphere. Some make it to earth but stop glowing before they land.

Answer 5

Shooting stars are meteors, tiny particles of rock in space burning up in the atmosphere.

They usually never reach the ground, having completely disintegrated in the air. Otherwise you would see the flash of light reach all the way to the ground.

Answer 6

Shooting stars are rocks in space that hit our planet. The glow that we see is the air around them superheating as they crash through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed. Most of them burn up in the atmosphere, but big ones can survive to hit the ground. You can see them in museums, they're called meteoroids.

And very big ones explode on impact and make craters. And very VERY big ones can explode with more power than the combined current nuclear arsenal of mankind, set half the planet on fire, and send up dust that blacks out the sun for months, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. But those come along too often. :)

Answer 7

shooting stars do not land, they just burn out in the atmosphere

Answer 8

They are really meteorites, mostly specks of dust that light up as they are burnt out by friction caused by our atmosphere.