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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.

Contents

• Astronomy and space exploration
• Geography
• Science and technology
• Business
• Transport
• Arts and entertainment
• Weaponry
• See also

• A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through outer space.
• A meteorite is a rock that has fallen from space 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

• Meteor, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
  • Meteor (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
• Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States
• Great Meteor Seamount, Portugal

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

• Meteor (mobile network), a defunct mobile phone operator in Ireland
• Meteor Vineyard, a vineyard in Napa Valley

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
• Mormon Meteor, a 1930s racing car
• Volkswagen Meteor, a modified version of the MAN TGX made by Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus
• 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
• List of ships named Meteor
  • USS Meteor, several U.S. Navy ships
  • HMS Meteor, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • SMS Meteor, several ships of the Imperial German Navy
  • Meteor (hydrofoil), a series of hydrofoil ships of the USSR

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
• "Meteor", song by Changmo
• 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
• Meteors, a video game developed by Amusement World, notable for its recognition in Atari, Inc. v. Amusement World, Inc.
• 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

Weaponry

• 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

See also

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

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