Falling stars are really meteors. Most of them are supposed to be fragments of broken-up comets which come hurtling into the atmosphere of the earth. When they come in contact with the gases there they are sot on fire by frietion.
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Southland Times, Issue 21659, 22 March 1932, Page 4
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