Meteor (disambiguation)
Appearance
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Meteor (mobile network), a defunct mobile phone operator in Ireland
- Meteor Vineyard, a vineyard in Napa Valley
Transport
[edit]- 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
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Meteorite (disambiguation)
- Meteorology, the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere
- Meteora (disambiguation)