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 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
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
- 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
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
- Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop
Weaponry
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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