shooting star

The colloquial term for a meteoroid entering the atmosphere, creating a bright streak across the sky as it burns up from friction heating.

See also

  • meteor - The proper name for a shooting star but mostly refers to larger falling space rocks (asteroid) as a tag.

The following tags are aliased to this tag: shooting_stars (learn more).

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