Meteor

A meteor is what you see when a space rock falls to Earth. It is often known as a shooting star or falling star and can be a bright light in the night...

The Chelyabinsk meteor (or 2013 Russian meteor event) happened on 15 February 2013 over Chelyabinsk, Russia at about 9:13 a.m. Chelyabinsk is near the...

A meteor shower is an event when many meteors seem to come from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere...

Meteor burst communication uses radio waves which bounce off the ionized trails made by meteors as they enter the earth’s atmosphere. It is also called...

The Meteor Missile is used in beyond Visual range combat. It's main standout features is both is range and ability to retarget in flight. This short article...

southern sky. NGC 7049 NGC 7090 Anonymous (February 3, 2007). "Meteor Showers". American Meteor Society. Retrieved 2008-05-07. Media related to Indus (constellation)...

Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks is a Canadian–American computer-animated television series. It was first broadcast on Discovery...

are a meteor shower that can be seen best on December 13–14. People watching it see about 100 meteors per hour at most. It one of the richest meteor showers...

The Killer Meteors (Chinese: 風雨雙流星) (or The Killer Meteors, Jackie Chan vs. Wang Yu) is a 1976 Hong Kong Taiwanese action movie directed by Jimmy Wang...

The Quadrantids are a meteor shower in the constellation Boötes They usually appear in early January, usually the 3rd or the 4th....

shaped like a circle or an oval. They are usually made by something like a meteor hitting the surface of a planet. Underground activity such as volcanoes...

The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle. The Leonids get their name from the direction their shower seems to come...

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Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea, p. 123. National Diet Library, "The...

Popigai crater is an impact crater in Siberia, Russia. It was formed when a meteor struck the Earth about 35 million years ago. There are many diamonds under...

reaching about apparent magnitude 0.7. It is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower, perhaps the best known shower and among the most reliable in performance...

tektites from a single meteor fall are found. There are two ways for strewnfields to form: Mid-air fragmentation. When a large meteor enters the atmosphere...

Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea, p. 122. Ackroyd, Joyce. (1982). Lessons...

eclipses each other and creates the brightess variation. The Perseids are a meteor shower located in Perseus, that are proeminent during the months of July...

The Perseids are prolific meteor showers associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle. The point they appear to come from (called the radiant) is in the constellation...