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Definitions of meteors in various dictionaries:
noun - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
noun - a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
adj - a small celestial body that enters the earth's atmosphere [n -S] : METEORIC
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January 3, 2010:Look out! The Quadrantids will be coming from Bootes! Oh... relax, it's just a shower of these things |
Things that fell from the skies in Aristotelian times were known as these, from which a science later took its name |
Each August astronomers watch for these in the constellation Perseus |
The Geminids is an important winter shower of these |
These usually glow at 50 to 75 miles above the Earth's surface |
Showers of these include the Leonid, the Geminid & the Lyrid |
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Plural form of meteor. |
a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light. |
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A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. * Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor or "shooting star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, it |
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