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Meteor (disambiguation)

A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a heated and glowing object falling through the Earth's atmosphere.

  • A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through outer space.
  • A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from such a body which survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere, and falls to the Earth's surface.

Meteor may also refer to:

Astronomy and space exploration

  • Meteor (rocket), a Polish meteorology rocket (1963–1974)
  • Meteor (satellite), three series of weather satellites of the Soviet Union, starting in 1969
  • Meteor, a spacecraft recovery system being developed by the student-run Cambridge University society CU Spaceflight

Geography

Science and technology

  • Meteor (weather), any weather phenomenon, as studied in meteorology
  • Meteor (web framework), an open-source JavaScript web application development platform
  • METeOR, an Australian information repository
  • Meteor goldfish, a variety of goldfish having no tail fin
  • METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering), a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output

Business

Transport

  • Météor, a codename for the Paris Métro Line 14
  • Meteor (automobile), a brand of car from Ford Motor Company of Canada (1949–1976)
  • Ford Meteor, a car model, available 1981–1995
  • Mercury Meteor, a car in North America, 1961–1963
  • Meteor (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway), a named passenger train
  • Silver Meteor, an Amtrak train service
  • Meteor, a South Devon Railway Comet class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
  • Meteor (1986), a German research vessel
  • Meteor (1915), a German survey vessel
  • Meteor, German Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht, the former Thistle, which was sold in 1895 to the German Navy to be used as a school yacht and renamed Comet
  • USS Meteor, several U.S. Navy ships
  • HMS Meteor, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • SMS Meteor, several ships of the Imperial German Navy
  • SS Meteor, several steamships

Arts and entertainment

  • Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
  • Meteor (film), a 1979 science-fiction film
  • Meteor (miniseries), a 2009 disaster-science fiction two-part TV mini-series starring Billy Campbell and Marla Sokoloff
  • Meteor Records, an American record label
  • The Meteors, English psychobilly band formed in 1980
  • "Meteor" (Pink Lady song), 2019
  • Kamen Rider Meteor, a fictional character in the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Fourze
  • Meteor, a powerful magic spell in the video game Final Fantasy VII
  • Meteor, a 1929 play by S. N. Behrman
  • Meteor, a science fiction short story by John Wyndham in the collection The Seeds of Time
  • Meteor (horse), a racing horse
  • Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop

Weaponry

See also

  • Meteorite (disambiguation)
  • Meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere
  • Meteora (disambiguation)
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