Synonym: meteoroid, shooting star. Similar words: meteoric, meteorology, meteorologist, meteorological, mete, meter, gamete, ammeter. Meaning: ['mɪːtɪə(r)] n. 1. 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 2. (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.
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1. A meteor shot across the sky.
2. A meteor flashed through the sky.
3. The meteor shot across the sky.
4. A huge meteor fell to earth in the middle of the desert.
5. The correct answer was the Gloster Meteor.
6. The meteor left a crater over five miles wide.
7. Meteor Crater is easily understood as the result of a surface impact of a body bearing about fifteen megatons of energy.
8. You might have thought that no meteor shower, no space dist had ever touched that brilliance.
9. And that meteor storm is in an orbit that brings it back every thirty-three years.
10. Interestingly, three regular meteor showers have orbits connected with three asteroids whose orbits bring them very close to Earth.
11. Meteor Crater in Arizona was excavated 10 4 yr ago by an iron object with a kinetic energy of 15Mton.
12. Some meteor showers last just one or two nights, to disappear completely until the same two nights the next year.
13. Meteor Special EE549 during its stay on the gate at Innsworth - it carried a suitable inscription on the nose.
14. It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.
15. Bundle up for the annual Geminid meteor shower, peaking around midnight Dec. 13.
16. Thus despite its name Meteor Crater was certainly made by a meteorite,[sentencedict.com] not a meteor.
17. The orbits of many other meteor swarms have been determined.
18. The density of the atmosphere traversed by the meteor increases very rapidly as it nears the ground.
19. The random background meteors that do not belong to discrete meteor showers are called sporadic meteors.
20. Some of the older meteor streams are split into two or more branches with closely similar but distinguishable orbits.
21. Meteor Crater was merely the first documented impact crater on Earth.
22. The word meteor is in fact reserved for objects that do not survive passage through the atmosphere.
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24. Scientists hypothesize that the dinosaurs were killed by a giant meteor.
25. Scientists have hypothesized that the dinosaurs were killed by a giant meteor.
26. Read in studio Britain's first jet fighter, the Gloucester Meteor celebrated it's fiftieth birthday today.
27. As much as several percent of the total energy of an entering meteor is radiated as light and heat.
28. These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history, surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.
29. Mervyn Gowell was a fitter at the plant and says that working on the Meteor was a labour of love.
30. The timing of showers is highly predictable: from year to year meteor showers occur on the same dates.
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