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Shooting stars are meteors doing dramatic exits for attentio…
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Shooting stars are meteors doing dramatic exits for attention.
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Shooting stars are meteors, which are small bits of space debris burning up as they enter Earth's atmosphere. They are not stars, and they do not act for attention.
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