Possible shooting star?

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Munying
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Possible shooting star?

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I saw a shooting star yesterday night - 30 November.

It looks like a shooting star though. Any suggestions as to which meteor shower it belongs to?
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geminids meteor shower is arnd the corner but this early? maybe not. could be something else...but what? :?
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Post by zong »

Hi Munying, Popsoda,

If that's a shooting star, it's probably called a sporadic. You see shooting stars not just around meteor showers, they come all the time, just that the frequencies of them are higher during meteor showers.

But a little trivia would be, not all shooting stars you see are "real" shooting stars... there is a lot of space junk orbiting Earth, it could be just these junk falling back into Earth and burning up. Alternatively, a "dirtier" side of these shooting stars (not frequent, i hope) would be that they are the "by-products" of astronauts up there orbiting the Earth, being ejected out of the shuttles or the ISS. You should know what by-products I mean. :lol:
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