Shooting Star

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, 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
• Shooting Star, a well known Blade Symphony player, known for her skill and contributions to the community (i.e. Tutoring many new players).

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

See also

• Falling star (disambiguation)
• Ryūsei (disambiguation)