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Star fall on Earth?
Perhaps you have a few things mixed. If you are thinking about shooting stars, they are not star actually. Those are small meteorites that enter the atmosphere at high velocity and burn from the kinetic heating. They were called "stars" by people hundred (if not thousand) of years ago who did not know any better, to them stars were just small dots "painted" on some celestial sphere, not suns or giant stars millions of time bigger than the Earth.
And they do fall on the moon as well. Except that, without an atmosphere to burn them up around the moon, they reach the ground essentially intact. And, since there is no one on the moon right now to observe them, there is not many reports about meteoric activity there, save for the instruments that were left there in the late 1960's and early 1970's by the Apollo astronauts.
2007-06-29 07:54:19
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answered by Vincent G 7
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Stars don't fall to Earth, meteorites fall. They are called falling stars , but they are not stars. They are small pieces of rock and dust that have been floating around our solar system and are remnants of the formation of our solar system. Stars are large balls of burning gas, like our sun. When these pieces fall into Earths gravitational field and enter our atmosphere, they are generally small enough to burn up in our atmospere and leave a streak across the sky as they do so. They also hit the moon, The craters on the moon's surface were all caused by impact with larger meteorites, Most occurred about 2 to 3 billion years ago when these objects were much more prevailant.
2007-06-29 07:54:21
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answered by booman17 7
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Shooting Stars are not actually stars, they are fragments from asteroids and other space debris.
And they do strike the moon as well as the Earth. The moon is covered with craters large and small from past meteorite hits.
2007-07-02 23:42:19
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answered by Anonymous
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First of all, they are not actually stars. They are small bits of material left over from the formation of the solar system, which get very hot due to atmospheric friction when they enter the earth's atmosphere, and so they glow brightly. Secondly, they DO fall on the moon, and all the other bodies in the solar system, but we are not able to observe those events from earth.
2007-06-29 11:45:21
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answered by Anonymous
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Shooting Stars are not actually stars, they are fragments from asteroids and other space debris.
And they do strike the moon as well as the Earth. The moon is covered with craters large and small from past meteorite hits.
2007-06-29 07:54:35
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answered by rbanzai 5
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Small pieces of matter are falling on the earth all the time as well as on the moon.
The earths atmosphere usually vaporizes them and you see them burn up.
The moon has no atmosphere so they just crash to the surface.
2007-06-30 02:26:51
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answered by Billy Butthead 7
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I think if you'll look at the moon, you'll see evidence that 'stars' (meteorites) DO fall on the moon... The entire surface is pock-marked with craters.
2007-06-29 08:37:41
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answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7
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star never falls ,it bursts.meteorites fall
when we see moon we see big circles on they r because of meteorites fall on moon.and if star starts falling on earth earth wont be there.
2007-06-29 07:57:21
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answered by Anonymous
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I assume that you are talking about shotting stars. well shotting stars arn't really stars they are just bits of rock that fall and burn up in the earth atmophere.
2007-06-29 13:45:59
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answered by Mr. Smith 5
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i belive u r refering to shooting stars, but shooting stars have nothing to do with stars . shooting stars are like commets
and how do u think there r so many creaters on moon
2007-06-29 08:20:12
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answered by cool shah 1
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