A friend of yours who has not taken astronomy sees a meteor shower (she calls it a bunch of shooting stars). The next day she co
nfides in you that she was concerned that the stars in the Big Dipper (her favorite star pattern) might be the next ones to go. How would you put her mind at ease?
Tell her meteors and stars aren't related a stars life time is extremely long and meteors are just rocks floating through space when they fly be the earth they can appear like falling stars but they aren't her fave constellation wont be going away any time soon
