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:
- JNR Class DD51 123
- JR Freight Class EF510
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