how often do shooting stars occur?

Answer 1

David, (say, that's my name,) find out when the aforementioned showers occur. You only need to enter them in the search engine. I remember being at my brother-in-law's cabin one night. We must have been going through one of those showers. We were just sitting outside and frequently viewed a shooting star. Most last about a third of a second. I remember one, though, that lasted about 2 seconds. It looked like a little comet. If you are lucky, you will be where the sky is clear that night. If you have the patients to watch the sky for 10 minutes, you will see an occasional shooter.

Answer 2

Quite often!
Of course the sun out shines them so you can't see them during daylight hours. Also fog and clouds obscure them, even the brightness of the moon impairs our ability to see them.

There are times when there are more of them to see, these are called meteor showers. Some of them have names, the ones coming up soon are:
Delta AquaridsJuly 28 Full Moon
Perseids August 13 New Moon
OrionidsOctober 21 Evening gibbous
The Perseids are prominent and it will be a dark night (new moon). It will be worth it to go to a dark location, away from cities and lights, and watch them all night. Your neck will get tired from looking up so if you can lay down in a pick up bed it will make it easier.
It has been estimated that the earth gains 5,000 tons every day as these particles add to its weight.
Shooting star sounds good but is incorrect. Stars are thousands of times lager than the earth, if one ever shot to the earth it would be all over!
Meteor is the proper name. A meteor that survives the atmosphere and actually hits the ground become a mineral and is called meteorite.
They range from particles of dust to sand size, and on rare occasion weigh several hundred pounds.

Good question.

Answer 3

There are thousands of them every night but most are too dim to see.

There are certain times of year when you can see more shooting stars. One is the Perseid Meteor Shower, in about the middle of August. There is a cloud of little particles that the earth drifts past at this particular time of year, and our gravity pulls them towards us so they 'fall' to earth and are burned up in the atmosphere. If you go outside, far away from city lights, you can see 1 or 2 shooting stars every minute!

It's called the Perseid meteor shower because the point the meteors seem to be coming from is the constellation of Perseus, but of course they are not related, the constellation is much further away.

Answer 4

On any clear night you can see shooting stars - some nights just a few, other nights a lot (especially during what they call "meteor showers" when the Earth travels through the debris path of comets).
You can see more, of course, away from city lights.
But I live in downtown Toronto and even I can see several on good clear nights.

Answer 5

This varies but if you go out on a clear night for an hour you should see a few. If there is a meteor shower like the Leonids then there will be many more.

Answer 6

Every single day, hundreds of small particles enter earth's atmosphere. If it's on the night side of earth, they are visible as streaks of light traversing the sky.

Answer 7

All the time.

Answer 8

All the time but you can't see them because there are alot of lights, you can see them in the woods or a high building.

Answer 9

Daily, However they are not easily visible in the daytime.

Answer 10

every second