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meteor

A meteor is a flash of light in the night sky that happens when matter from space enters Earths' atmosphere.

meteor

(= meteoroid) (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere 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

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It's only a matter of time before the meteor strikes.
Last night provided a good opportunity to see a meteor shower.
If a meteoroid falls into the Earth's atmosphere, it will begin to heat up and start to glow. This is called a meteor.
If we don't take the threat of meteor strikes seriously, we will all die.
If we don't take the threat of meteor strikes seriously, we'll all die.
The best meteor shower of the year is upon us.
The Perseid meteor shower is often considered to be one of the best meteor showers of the year.
The Perseids are one of the most visible meteor showers.
What is a meteor?
Meteor strikes are a real threat.

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You're getting a bit beyond me, but it sounds like a meteor.
A meteor might move almost horizontal to the earth but never upward.
Then it isn't a meteor.
It's a meteor. Johnny says the biggest one that ever hit us.
It was no meteor. No meteor?.
The presence of the crater itself, its formation and characteristics, all support the theory that it was a meteor. But I tell you I was ship!
Look, note the black coloring, characteristic of the meteor, the fusion from heat, the nickel and iron.
Everything points toward it being a meteor. All right, all right.
You mean like another meteor?.
No, I don't mean like a meteor.
Wouldn't have needed it if that meteor hadn't stuck its nose smack in that lower level.
It's about that meteor.
It didn't come down like a meteor.
What is a meteor?
A meteor is a star with a tail on it.
You are truly like a meteor.
A meteor, a bright little meteor on our otherwise sorrowful sky.
A meteor.
It's a meteor.
It was no meteor.
No meteor?
Look, John, last night you saw a meteor fall to earth.
The presence of the crater itself. its formation and characteristics, all support the theory that it was a meteor.
Note the black colouring, characteristic of the meteor.
Everything points towards it being a meteor.
You mean, like another meteor?
On the return trip, the spaceship was crippled by a meteor.
I'll buy my Meteor comics, too.
Meteor comics, please.
Jupiter 2 is headed directly for a massive meteor swarm.
I'm like a lonely, wandering meteor in the sky.
Go back to your telescope and leave the meteor site to us.
I think the secret of this scarlet plague is right there in the meteor site.
All the world is pinning victims of the plague to the meteor site.
A woman in the town near the meteor site claimed she saw her husband working there. He'd been a victim of the plague.
Hull surface is pitted with meteor scars.
Presumed destroyed by a meteor collision.
I believe that more happened to it than just damage in the meteor collision.
Undoubtedly the meteor collision.
We had meteor damage, Jim.

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A few scientists, and many science-fiction writers, have also speculated about using nuclear weapons to destroy or damage an asteroid, comet, meteor, or alien spacecraft heading toward the earth.
At least in the near term, the chance that the US will not service its debt is vanishingly small - perhaps in the same order of probability as a large meteor striking the earth.

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