Just now my mum claims she saw a shooting star or a piece of debris from something unidentified, which means a meteor or asteroid impacted on Earth, but it was apparently only 1 shooting star and not a bunch of them so I have three questions.
How often do shooting stars occur and can only one appear?
Is the Earth constantly hit by small asteroids and meteors?
What else could give the impression of a shooting star or meteor shower?|||They occur thousands of time each night. Yes, the Earth is hit by them constantly.
A shooting star is only a small meteor about the size of a grain of sand. Approaching Earth from space, they hit the atmosphere at many miles per second and burn up giving a very bright flash in the process. They can be seen from many miles away.
.|||%26gt; How often do shooting stars occur and can only one appear?
Several times an hour in any one location. They can be single or several coming in on the same track.
%26gt; Is the Earth constantly hit by small asteroids and meteors?
Yes.
%26gt; What else could give the impression of a shooting star or meteor shower?
Usually meteors (or shooting stars in popular language) are natural objects, as opposed to "space debris" from artificial satellites.|||The Earth is constantly bombarded with debris. Hundreds if not thousands of meteorites burn entering the atmosphere every day. People just dont walk around looking up in the air to see them. This is a good time of year to view them. Find a dark spot in the country at nite and lay back for a bit and enjoy the view.
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