Concept:A shooting star is not a star but a meteor—a small rocky or metallic object from space that burns up upon entering Earth's atmosphere.
Explanation:When a meteoroid (a small asteroid or comet fragment) enters Earth's atmosphere at high speed, friction with air heats it up.
This causes the object to glow and produce a bright streak of light across the sky.
This glowing trail is what we call a shooting star or meteor.
If the object survives the fall and lands on Earth, it becomes a meteorite.
So a shooting star is the visible passage of a meteor, not the object itself.
It is different from a star (a huge self-luminous ball of gas), a comet (an icy body with a tail), or an asteroid (a larger rocky body orbiting the Sun).
Answer:C. meteor