Shooting Star

If you look up at the sky on a clear night, you may see a “shooting star” flash across the sky.  Shooting stars are bits of space matter called “meteors”.  Most are no bigger than grains of sand.  Billions of meteors zip through space.  Many are captured by earth’s gravity, and are pulled toward earth.  As the meteors whiz through the earth’s atmosphere, friction causes them to burn white hot.  Then we see them as blazing traits of light.  Meteors usually burns up long before reaching the ground.  Those that survive their fall and land on earth are called “meteorites.”