Comets and Shooting Stars!

I’ve been spending lots of nights in Stagecoach Island and the night sky has really made it feel like home. I can just sit and stare from rooftops and mountain tops to watch the stars twinkle, and it’s at these moments – I’d wish that there were shooting stars or other cool cosmic  twists to our world. Don’t you?
Speaking of which, meteors , otherwise known as shooting stars, are some of the rarest and coolest things I’ve seen growing up. I remember watching the meteor shower  of the star sign Leo  a couple years back and was wowed by the number of “shooting stars”. They reminded me of really shiny teardrops illuminating a dark cold night. Actually I’m still stunned by the fact that I actually sat out in the freezing cold for four hours watching these falling rocks from the sky! Funny thing is that literally millions of shooting stars occur every single day, even during the day when our happy sun is out and shining. So why can’t we catch very many of them? In reality, we only get to see about 0.005 percent  –which is scary statistic meaning one twenty-thousandth of the entire area of our beautiful sky. What does this mean? Well, it means that in one hour, there are about a dozen shooting stars happening!
The other cool thing to think about is the mystery behind the infamous “comet .” They look so awesome in photos and pictures that we kind of forget what they really are. Bet you didn’t know that comets are actually gi-normous dirty snowballs . Yep, it's sad to say, but that’s what they are folks, but not like it’s a bad thing! So remember that pretty comet tail? That comes from the comet when it inches close to the sun and the surface begins to boil –spitting chunks of ice into space. This ice turns to a swirling vapor carried out by the “solar wind”  along with some dust to make the notorious “comet’s tail.”
As for us Islanders, what kind of cosmic happenings have you caught in world?