The Shooting of a Star

A cause of these shooting stars is sometimes the motion which ignites the exhalation. At other times, the air is condensed by cold and squeezes out and ejects the hot element. Making their motion look more like that of a thing thrown, then like a running fire. When this does not happen, it is a torch. But if the whole length of the exhalations is scattered in small parts and in many directions we get what are called shooting stars.