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Asked by mcdermotti to Nick, Alan on 11 Mar 2014.
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Nick Wright answered on 11 Mar 2014:
It may be because those shooting stars are occurring all over the world and so not all of them might be visible to someone standing in a given place (for example if there was a shooting star above Australia now you or I wouldn’t be able to see it!). Also some of those shooting stars may be very faint and so we might not see them during daytime, or if we’re in a place with bright street lamps. To see all the beautiful things in the night sky you often have to go to a very dark location, but most of us live in towns and cities with bright street lamps which can make it hard to see everything in the night sky.
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Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 11 Mar 2014:
Actually, every second there are many shooting stars all over the Earth!
On average any person can see a shooting star about once every ten minutes. But they have to be somewhere away from streetlights, with no clouds in the sky, and no moon in the sky, so it is as dark as possible. And it has to be night time, of course!
Very few people take the time to sit out under the stars and watch the sky for more than a couple of minutes, which is why most people don’t see them.
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