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Now why would you ever think that? Stars are huge balls of fire usually made of hydrogen and sometimes helium (referring to a red giant). The closest star to us right now is our Sun. Others are many, many light years away. If some freak accident were to happen, and we crashed into Mars in our orbital paths (without destroying the entire planet), we would start a hurdle to the Sun. It would be more like the earth falling on a star (the Sun). In any case, we would all die. Also, it would never happen with any other star because of the sheer distance away from Earth. Also, if one looks at this through the law of universal gravitation, the Sun's gravity (or any other stars) would be so great that we would be pulled instead.

A common misconception is a meteor burning up in the atmosphere that is portrayed to be a falling star, but in truth, it is not, as it is a rock disintegrating as it falls to earth because of the mass amount of friction that is being exerted on the space-rock. A meteor lacks every property of a star (explained above), and is not even remotely close to a star. This saying of 'stars falling to earth' is a misnomer, and it can never happen.

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