Shooting star is a common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere to become a meteor. As it enters the atmosphere the meteor burns up into flames. It wont land on the earth because it burns up until there is nothing left.
Shooting star may also refer to:
- Shooting Star Children's Hospice, a UK children's charity
- The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
- Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
- The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
- Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
- Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
- Shooting Star Casino in Minnesota
- Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
- Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
- A professional wrestling aerial technique
- An algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph
- Shooting star (candlestick pattern), pattern
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Famous quotes containing the words shooting star, shooting and/or star:
“Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you’re a star you’re dead already. You’re embalmed.”
—Dustin Hoffman (b. 1937)