Meteor (disambiguation)
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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 impact with the Earth's surface
Meteor may also refer to:
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Astronomy and space exploration[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Meteor, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
- Meteor (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
- Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States
Science and technology[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Meteor (mobile network), Ireland's third mobile phone operator who trade solely as Meteor
- Meteor Vineyard, a vineyard in Napa Valley
Transport[edit]
- 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
Entertainment & Arts[edit]
- Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
- Meteor (film), a 1979 science-fiction film
- Meteor (TV 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
- 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
Weaponry[edit]
- The Meteor hammer, a Chinese martial arts weapon or dance prop
- Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet (1943–1970s)
- Rolls-Royce Meteor, a tank engine version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin
- MBDA Meteor, a next-generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile
- BSA Meteor Air Rifle, a Birmingham Small Arms Company-manufactured air rifle
Performing arts[edit]
- Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop
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