Shooting Star

Contents 1 People 2 In transportation 3 In music 3.1 Songs 4 In film, television, and theater 5 In books 6 See also

Shooting star is a common name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere to become a meteor.

Shooting star may also refer to:

• Shooting Star Children's Hospice, a UK children's charity
• The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
• Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
• The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
• Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
• Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
• Shooting Star Casino in Minnesota
• Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
• Dodecatheon, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants
• A professional wrestling aerial technique
• An algorithm for calculating the shortest path in a graph
• Shooting star (candlestick pattern), pattern

People

• Shooting Star (actor), born Louis Heminger 6 March 1890, South Dakota, USA; died 4 June 1966, Hollywood, California, USA
• Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star!

In transportation

• P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
• T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
• A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
• A GWR Star Class steam locomotive
• A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:
  • JNR Class DD51
  • JR Freight Class EF510

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 Stars, a 2011 album by TyDi

Songs

• "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 song by the German band Modern Talking
• "Shooting Star" (Poison song), from the 2002 album Hollyweird
• "Shooting Star" (Kotoko and Mami Kawada song) from the 2002 anime Please Teacher!
• "Shooting Star", a song from Lou Reed's 1978 album, Street Hassle
• "Shooting Star", a 1997 dance single by Bang!
  • "Shooting Star", a 2002 cover version by Flip & Fill
• "Shooting Star" performed by Boyzone, for the 1997 film Hercules
• "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 1989 album Oh Mercy
• "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 Órla Fallon, from her 2009 album Distant Shore; first performed in the Celtic Woman 2005 and 2006 tours.
• "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1966 film Thunderbirds Are GO. A song about an abusive man who stalks his ex-girlfriend.
• "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the 2004 album From a Basement on the Hill
• "Shooting Star" by Iced Earth, a cover of the Bad Company song, from the 1999 The Melancholy E.P.
• "Shooting Stars" by Bag Raiders and Rhys "Ted" Taylor, from the 2009 EP Shooting Stars

In film, television, and theater

• Shooting Stars, a British comedy television show
• Shooting Stars (Singapore television series)
• "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

In books

• Shooting Star (Bloch novel) by Milwaukeean Robert Bloch
• Shooting Star (Temple novel) by Australian Peter Temple

See also

• Falling star (disambiguation)

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It is a popular superstition to make a wish upon seeing a shooting star.