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Meteor - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Asteroids, Blackout, Bolide, Chondrite, Fireball, Meteorite, Meteoroid, Meteors, Micrometeorite, Micrometeoroid, Radiant, Radiation |
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- For other uses, see Meteor (disambiguation).
A meteor is the visible path of a meteoroid that enters the Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere, commonly called a shooting star. The visibility is due to the heat produced by the atmospheric entry. A very bright meteor, brighter than the apparent magnitude of Venus, may be called a fireball or bolide.
 The Great Meteor Crater in Arizona, USA If a meteoroid survives its transit of the atmosphere to come to rest on the surface, the resulting object is called a meteorite.
A meteor striking the Earth or other object may produce an impact crater.
Molten terrestrial material 'splashed' from such a crater can cool and solidify into an object known as a tektite
See also
Crater, Meteor shower, meteoroid, meteorite, tektite
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Example Usage of Meteor |
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Will_North: Meteor lights up Gauteng http://bit.ly/8yGW4W |
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brenden7: Joburg ppl were lucky enough to catch a rare sighting of a Meteor passing overhead Sat night! Wish I could have seen that:) |
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michclarke: @MelAttree I tell you district 9 is on it's way ;-) those Meteor's were just testing the waters.. ;-) |
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