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meteor
meteor (shooting star) Brief streak of light in the night sky caused by a meteoroid entering the Earth's upper atmosphere at high speed from space. A typical meteor lasts from a few tenths of a second to a few seconds, depending on the meteoroid's impact speed, which can vary from
c.11–70km/s (7–45mi/s). At certain times of the year there are meteor showers, when meteors are more numerous than usual.
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Meteors.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 2/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...stars." Lots of meteors shooting through the sky make up a meteor shower. If a meteor...is identified as a meteor. Bright, thunderous fiery meteors are called fireballs...Numerous falling meteors are identified as meteor showers or meteor...
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Meteors fall in shower or storm
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/21/2002; ; 699 words
; ...you'll see a meteor flash by. Such solitary meteors are called sporadic...brilliant. In a meteor shower, the number...dramatically. Sporadic meteors are bits of rock...spectacular show of 6,000 meteors an hour. A meteor shower can range...
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Meteors star in bright celestial storm: Viewers get a treat in predawn shows.(A)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 11/17/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...1966, the last major meteor storm. This year, anywhere from 200 to 5,000 meteors an hour may streak across...technique for tracking meteors, even in daylight...bounce radar beams off meteor tails, much as light...to count the number of meteors. Mr. Horack and his...
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Meteors on course to set skies alight
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/8/1998; ; 700+ words
; A SPECTACULAR meteor shower could set...one a second. The meteors - dust and debris...going to happen with meteors. It depends whether...concentration of meteor particles. "But...another family of meteors, the Leonids, are...to produce a full meteor storm, creating...
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Meteor shower to light up night sky
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 11/15/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...years of the Leonid meteor shower. Early...up to 4,000 meteors an hour will be...to observe the meteor shower. Although meteors will be visible...high number of meteors visible before...years, the Leonid meteor shower will produce...
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Meteors to star, but moon to steal much of the show ; The Perseids will peak tonight, but there's only a 90-minute viewing window.
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 8/12/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of vision too much. Meteors are best viewed with...of the annual Perseid meteor showers. "The Perseids...able to catch 20 to 30 meteors an hour. Meteor showers come year...they're related to meteors. Meteor showers appear when...
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Meteor Announces Form 8-K Filing Regarding Nevada Manhattan Transaction.
PR Newswire; 1/8/1999; 700+ words
; ...DENVER, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Meteor Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: METR...announced today that on January 8, 1999 Meteor filed a Form 8-K with the Securities...purchased 1,212,000 shares of Meteor common stock from Capco Aquisub...
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Meteor Industries, Inc. Announces Record Nine Month Earnings; $.24 in 1998 vs $.10 in 1997; and Third Quarter Earnings Rise from $.04 to $.11 Per Share.
PR Newswire; 11/9/1998; 700+ words
; ...R. Staal, Chief Financial Officer of Meteor Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: METR) announced today the financial results of Meteor's third quarter for 1998 and the nine...comparison to the third quarter of 1997, Meteor's sales increased by 15% from $27...
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Meteor Mobile Communications Standardizes on BEA to Capitalize on Convergence Opportunities in Irish Cellular Market.
PR Newswire; 8/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...term Customer Loyalty Core News Facts 1. Meteor Mobile Communications standardizes on...sustain long-term relationships with Meteor's 849,000-strong customer base...infrastructure software, today announced that Meteor Mobile Communications has standardized...
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Will meteor shower threaten satellites?
Magazine article from: Multichannel News; 5/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the most intense meteor "storm" in history...when 150,000 meteors per hour were spotted...between 15 and 20 meteors fall per hour. During...other notable annual meteor event, the Perseids...hundred to 5,000 meteors will fall per hour...qualifying the event as a meteor "shower." The...
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Barringer Meteor Crater
Book article from: World of Earth Science
...of time. Assuming the meteor to be like other known...composition to the smaller meteors found around the crater...effort to find the elusive meteor. Gilbert's repeated...discovering that small meteors made of iron had been...that only a large iron meteor could be the cause of...
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meteor
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...may be produced by particles sharing an orbit around the Sun (a meteor stream), or by solitary, random particles ( sporadic meteors ). During a meteor shower , more meteors will be seen. Most meteors are faint. The naked eye can detect...
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Meteor Industries Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Meteor Industries Inc. 216 16th Street, Suite...Terminals); 44719 Other Gasoline Stations Meteor Industries Inc. is one of the fastest...former accountant and a corporate attorney, Meteor focuses primarily on rural or sparsely populated...
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meteor shower
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
meteor shower increase in the number of meteors observed in a particular...The trails of the meteors of a meteor shower all appear to...Orionids from Orion. Meteor showers usually occur...average counting rate of meteors for the entire sky...
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sporadic meteor
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
...meteor A randomly occurring meteor, not associated with any meteor shower. Sporadic meteors can be seen on any clear...become so dispersed that a meteor shower is no longer detectable...they are random, sporadic meteors are often considered a...
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