S for Shooting Star

A shooting star is a meteor that is burning up in the earth’s atmosphere. Meteors are small pieces of rocks that most of the times come off moons or rocks.

The shooting star looks like a huge piece of rock with fire all around it. AKA (fire ball). The shooting star moves to the east before sunrise and to the west after sunrise. Most of the time it falls near the horizon at 60mi over your head.

This web page was found by Jessica D. a student from J.R Briggs elementary school. For more info go to http://www.awrsd.org/jrb and look at our wonderful 5^th grade animations. I got my information on Starchild.com, Zoom Astronomy Dictionary and a book called “How the Universe Works”. This website was made on 12/6/05.