Falling Stars?

Question

Why is there falling stars, but no star from the Big Dipper or Little Dipper ever fall??

Answer 1

A falling star is not a star. It is a piece of rock mostly about the size of a grain of sand or smaller that is pulled towards the earth by the earths gravity. As is comes through the atmosphere the friction of the air against heats it up so much that it vapourises. The light from this can be as bright as the stars hence the name falling star.

Answer 2

Imagine if there was such a thing as a falling star, how fast that star would have to be moving. WOW.

now if you figure that meteors and meteorites are really what's falling, it's not quite so mind-blowing.

By the way, all stars fall as do all planets and all satellites. Free fall is motion with no acceleration other than that provided by gravity. This also applies to objects in orbit even though these objects are not falling in the usual sense of the word. All stars are in orbit around something, with orbits defined by gravitational accelleration. Anyone with a PhD in astrophysics can tell you that.

Answer 3

What we call falling stars are, indeed, pieces of solid material falling into the atmosphere, and as friction heats them up they create a shock wave that lights up and that's what we see. Most meteors are vaporized, but if they make it to the ground they are called meteorites. Some of the dust that collects outside is meteoric in origin, too!

But, the joke is on most of the other answerers: all stars fall, and are doing so all the time. They aren't falling to Earth, but they are in free fall around some center of gravity somewhere (in other words they are orbiting something). And, by the way, that means that the sun and all other stars weigh nothing. Not a gram. They are as weightless as cosmonauts or astronauts on the ISS. (They do have a great deal of mass, however).

Answer 4

Falling stars are just a cute name for "meteors" - streaks of light in the sky that are caused when small rocks or objects from space enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up from friction.
So none of the stars we see in the sky are actually falling. Stars are very VERY far away. What we call "falling stars" are just local events.

Answer 5

"Falling star" is just a cultural expression for a meteor, that dates back to the time in which some cultures contained the belief that the stars were luminous jewels attached to the inside of a dark blue dome that stretched above the world.

Actual stars do not fall.

Answer 6

Falling stars aren't really 'falling stars' they're actually small pieces of meteors and rock that fall towards Earth, when they get in our atmosphere they burn up which causes them to light up and streak across the sky they turn into dust and fall to earth.

Answer 7

Falling stars are not really stars. They are meteors which are small particles of dust that enter Earth's atmosphere from space and cause the air near them to glow from their high speed entry.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Falling star's are nicknames for comets or meteors. Star dont fall.

Answer 10

Falling stars or shooting stars are nicknames for comets stars are reletively motionless.