Shooting Stars “When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are. All your heart desires will come to you.” Disney writers and most other people do not realize that when they see a shooting star and wish on it, they actually silently speak to a chunk of ice, dirt or space waste entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Meteors, the scientific term for shooting stars, occur more frequently several times during the year. …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…zoom across the starry night sky. Between midnight and dawn on the night of a meteor shower, one can see thousands of meteors. The four main meteor showers of the year occur in early January, mid August, late October, and mid November. Around these times, shooting stars may even appear ubiquitous. As long as these beauties stay up in the night sky, they will continue to enchant those who observe them for years to come.