Richard Jordan age 12 of St. Asn. WVa.

Where do fallen stars go?

A medium sized stars we are told  is a million times bigger than our whole world. Yet such monsters seem to be falling around the sky all the time. Actually the big stars do not fall at all. They never change from their orderly positions in the sky.

What then are the falling stars we see so often? Most of them are tiny grains of matter called meteors. There are billions of such bits of dust and solid chunks drifting between the planets.. There are so many that they are always having traffic accidents.

Every day.. millions of little meteors crash into our earth. They hit The atmosphere like a match striking on a match box. And like the match they heat up and burn. Such a little bit of stuff will be burned to ashes long before it reaches the ground. These tiny meteors are usually what we see as a falling star. Most falling stars turn to dusty ash and filter softly down to the earth and seas.

Once in a whiles a meteor is too large to be burned away before it reaches earth. It falls as a lump of stone or metal. Once on the ground it is called a meteorite and its traveling days are over for ever.