Shooting Star

A shooting star is a common name for the visible part of a small dust and rocks from space as it travels through the Earth's atmosphere while burning up which gives it the commonly known name of a shooting star. If large enough, the meteoroid will fall to sea or land and be considered a meteorite.

Shooting star may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theater

Shooting star (short film), a 2015 Bulgarian short film
Shooting Stars (TV series), a British comedy television show
Shooting Star (TV series), a 2005 Singaporean TV drama
"Shooting Stars" (CSI), a 2005 sixth-season episode of CSI
Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
Shooting Stars (1927 film), a 1927 British drama film
Shooting Stars (1950 film), a 1950 film
Shooting Stars (1952 film), a 1952 West German drama film
Shooting Stars (1983 film), a 1983 television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
Shooting Stars (1997 film) ((Le ciel est à nous), a 1997 French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
"Shooting Star" (Glee), a 2013 episode of the television show Glee
Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media

Literature

Shooting Stars, a 2016 novel by Brian Falkner
Shooting Star, a 1958 novel by Robert Bloch
Shooting Star (Temple novel), by Australian Peter Temple
The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics

Music

Shooting Star (band), a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri

Albums

Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album), 1978
Shooting Star (Shooting Star album), 1980
Shooting Stars (album), a 1979 album by Dollar
Shooting Star (EP), a 2012 EP by Owl City, and the title song

Songs

"Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
"Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song), from the 2007 album Fractured Life
"Shooting Star" (Bad Company song), from the 1975 album Straight Shooter
"Shooting Star" (David Rush song), from the 2009 album Feel the Rush Vol. 1
"Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song), from the 2004 album Late September
"Shooting Star" (Elton John song), from side 2 of his 1978 album A Single Man
"Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song), a 2006 song by the German band Modern Talking
"Shooting Star" (Poison song), from the 2002 album Hollyweird
"Shooting Star" (Owl City song), from the 2012 album The Midsummer Station
"Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song), from a 2013 EP by Tara McDonald
"Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song), from their 2010 album Bag Raiders
"Shooting Stars" (Dragon song), from the 1977 album Running Free
"Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the 1971 album People Like Us
"Shooting Star", a song from Lou Reed's 1978 album, Street Hassle
"Shooting Star", by band Cross Gene, from the album Shooting Star (2013)
"Shooting Star", a 1997 dance single by Bang!, covered by Flip & Fill
"Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the 1974 album Verities & Balderdash
"Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
"Shooting Star" by Bob Dylan, from the album Oh Mercy (1989)
"Shooting Star" by Bob Dylan, from the album MTV Unplugged (1995)
"Shooting Star" by the Australian band Expatriate, from the 2007 album In the Midst of This
"Shooting Star" by Riyu Kosaka, from the 2003 album BeForU
"Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1966 film Thunderbirds Are Go
"Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the 2009 album Distant Shore
"Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the 2004 album From a Basement on the Hill
"Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the 2005 album This Is Me Now
"Shooting Star" by everset, the character theme for Kamen Rider Meteor who appeared in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Fourze
"The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the 2016 album Magma
"Shooting Star" by VIXX from the 2016 album Kratos
"Shooting Star" by exist†trace, from the 2014 album World Maker
Shooting Star, Happy Hardcore song
"Shooting Star" by Alan Menken and David Zippel, from Disney's Hercules that was deleted and replaced by "Go the Distance". Sung by Roger Bart and Boyzone.

Science and mathematics

Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
Dodecatheon pulchellum, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star
An algorithm for calculating the shortest path, in a graph

Sport

Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
NBA All-Star Weekend Shooting Stars Competition, a basketball competition
A professional wrestling aerial technique

Transportation

P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in 1851
Another 1851 extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in 1867.
A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
A GWR Star Class, steam locomotive
A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:
- JNR Class DD51, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive type operated in Japan since 1962
- JR Freight Class EF510, a multi-voltage AC/DC electric locomotive type operated in Japan since 2002

Other uses

Shooting Star (drone), quadcopter drone by Intel
Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
Shooting Star Casino, in Minnesota
Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
Shooting star (candlestick pattern), in finance
Shooting Star Tommy Gun, a carnival amusement game