Shooting Star
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Shooting star is a common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere, becoming a meteor.
Shooting star may also refer to:
- Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
In arts and entertainment
In music
- Shooting Star (band), a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri
- 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 also song by Katy Perry.
- Shooting Star (Tara McDonald song), a 2013 EP by Tara McDonald
Songs
- "Shooting Star" by band Cross Gene, from the albums Shooting Star (2013)
- "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" 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", a 1997 dance single by Bang!, covered by Flip & Fill
- "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
- "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 albums Oh Mercy (1989) and 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", a 2009 song by Bag Raiders
- "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the 2005 album This Is Me Now
- Shooting Star (Tara McDonald song), a 2013 EP by Tara McDonald featuring Zaho.
- "Shooting Star" by everset, the character theme for Kamen Rider Meteor who appeared in the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Fourze
In film, television, and theater
- 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 (1983 film), a 1983 television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
- "Shooting Star" (Glee), an episode of the television show Glee
- Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
In literature
- 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
People
- Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
Plants
- Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
- Shooting star flower, Dodecatheon pulchellum, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star
In sports
- NBA All-Star Weekend Shooting Stars Competition, a basketball competition
- Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
- A professional wrestling aerial technique
In transportation
- P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
- T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
- Shooting Star, 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:
- The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
Other uses
- Shooting Star Children's Hospice, a UK children's charity
- Shooting Star Casino, in Minnesota
- Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
- An algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph
- Shooting star (candlestick pattern), in finance
- Shooting Star Tommy Gun a carnival amusement game
See also
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