Why do we call them shooting stars, why not falling rocks?

[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 14-07-03] [Hit: ]

You can still wish on them.Theyre properly called meteors.Falling star is just a popularized term.Theyre not even falling so much as theyre striking the atmosphere at high speed.Imagine you are sitting outside a cave in the far east and have spent your life watching the stars (and sun and moon and planets) rotate overhead and are pretty darn sure the Earth is the center of the Universe.And then there are these thin streaks of light about the same size as stars.......

meteorites are not stars, they are space rocks.

They look like stars moving across the sky.
People name things based on how they appear, not on what they are.
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They came up with name when the word "star" had a different meaning: a bright shiny object in the night sky.
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Because they got that name before we knew they were rocks. Why bother changing it now? Besides they look more like shooting stars than shooting rocks.
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because shooting star sounds cooler lol
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They burn up as they shoot into our atmosphere so that's what they look like. You can still wish on them.
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They're properly called meteors. "Falling star" is just a popularized term. They're not even falling so much as they're striking the atmosphere at high speed.
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Imagine you are sitting outside a cave in the far east and have spent your life watching the stars (and sun and moon and planets) rotate overhead and are pretty darn sure the Earth is the center of the Universe. And then there are these thin streaks of light about the same size as stars. Why would you think, "Hey man, I think I'll call those falling rocks."?
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'Cause they kind of look like stars, and they are "shooting". Hence the term "shooting stars". They don't look like rocks.

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My cerebral cortex.
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It sounds classier, more exciting.......!!
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It is more romantic !
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Let's not call them falling rocks as they are much faster than the stones that fall from cliffs. We could call them nigulerks = I don't think that has a meaning yet.
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The Earth's gravity is just simply pulling the rock into its atmosphere. Once it reaches the mesoshere the third layer of the atmosphere it the rock will burn into bits die to the extreme friction of the atmosherical particles. The reason it doesn't burn up in the outer layers of the atmosphere is because the thermosphere or the exosphere because their isnt a high enough concentration of atmospherical particles. If the meteor is big enough it will make through the atmosphere xnd hit earth.
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Good Idea. From Now on we will call them Falling Rocks.

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