I was looking up at the sky and something that (from my distance) looked like a star but it shot down as fast as a shooting star would! But it shot downward, was that a meteor thingy?
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Any angle at all, including straight down. There are even a few cases of meteors entering the atmosphere at an angle and then exiting because they are moving faster then escape velocity.
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All "shooting stars" shoot downward, at least at a downward angle. They are not related to stars in any manner. They are small (usually) meteors. Some are only the size of a grain of sand. Then, when they hit the atmosphere of the earth, the friction of the air molecules causes them to burn up and this burning is the "shooting Star" you see.
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"Shooting stars," which scientists call "meteors," can move in any direction. They appear to originate from a "radiant," which can be anywhere in the sky between thew horizon and the zenith.
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Most do. I have filmed them as dots when they come straight at me. That happens mostly toward dawn.
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Yes, meteors can appear to move up, down, or at any angle.