SHOOTING STARS

SHOOTING STARS      


Comets
Traverse light years,
Shooting stars descending
To cerulean atmosphere
Burn out!

by Cheryl Ellen Baxter ©      



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My poem is called a cinquain, and it mentions comets and shooting stars. It's simple and short, yet, I love sharing information that's interesting to me, and hopefully will be to you. One thing I know for sure, is that GOD created all that exists in the heavens, including the earth and all the other planets. He is so much greater than his creation, and I'm in awe of him. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament declares his works or creation. Scripture says that all of creation shows the Creator's existence.

How someone can say there is no God is incredible. It's also incorrect and foolish, because everyone that's ever lived, past, present, and future, will be called to give account for how they lived their lives on earth. Whether they now believe in GOD or not, doesn't change the fact that HE exists.

Logically, we all know that a book doesn't create itself by making the paper and printing the words on the paper, then putting the pages together, adding the binding, and the front and back covers. The book simply didn't write itself and pull itself together... We know that someone did all of these things to make the book come together. The same thing can be said when it comes to a building, whether big or small, the building didn't build itself, or make the plans that the builders followed to construct the house or the skyscraper. Yet knowing this, there are still people who say there is no God, in spite of the Universe being much more complex than either of these simple examples.

The following is basic information regarding differences in what meteors, comets, shooting stars, etc. are. The info. is just for clarifying terms if you're interested to know. I specifically wanted to mention that a comet is quite different than a shooting star, which is itself a small meteor that burns up going through the earth's atmosphere. There's much more to it than what I'm sharing here, My purpose is that I wanted to reinforce my belief in God the Creator, as being far bigger and unfathomably more vast than all of the scientific minds and astronomers combined. -- Cheryl

Quick Summary below is info, from https://dictionary.com.

These definitions just give a simple explanation, but may stimulate your mind enough to research for yourself, just how incredible our known Universe is.
  • Meteoroid: A "space rock" - a relatively small object traveling through space, between the size of a grain of dust and a small asteroid.
  • Meteor: A meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
  • Meteorite: A meteoroid, especially one that has hit Earth's surface.
  • Asteroid: A rocky object that orbits the sun and has an average size between a meteoroid and a planet.
  • Comet: An object made mostly of ice and dust, often with a gas halo and tail, that sometimes orbits the sun.
What is a Comet?
A comet is "a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun." Comets consist mostly of ice, dust, and some rocky bits - they are sometimes nicknamed "dirty snowballs" for this reason. This sets them apart from asteroids, which are mostly rock or metal. Like asteroids, though, comets often orbit the sun. When comets get close to the sun, it heats their icy core, forming a halo (or coma) of dust and gas. Comets are known for having a tail, which is really the trail that happens when this gaseous dust cloud is blown by solar wind or heat. https://dictionary.com

This tail kind of looks like the comet's hair, and guess what - the word comet comes from the Greek kometes, meaning "having long hair"!

Where do comets come from? Most comets come from outside of or from the edge of the solar system. Many come from the far-out regions known as the Oort Cloud (where there are billions of them) and the Kuiper Belt. Some orbit the sun, while others escape on a path out of the solar system.

Those that orbit the sun come around in regular intervals, which makes some of them famous visitors. Halley's comet is known for reappearing about every 76 years (it was last here in 1986, and you can catch it again in 2061). Many comets have a much longer orbit period, but some are shorter - Encke's comet comes around every 3.3 years (catch it in October 2023).

What is a shooting star?
The term shooting star (or falling star) is just a more poetic name for a meteor, which can look a little bit like a star as it makes a bright streak through the sky. Since they happen so fast, you have to be pretty lucky to see a shooting star as it happens - unless you know that a meteor shower is coming. https://dictionary.com
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Genesis 1:1-17 -- In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
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Psalm 19:1-6 -- The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
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John 1:1-3 -- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.