Word familyadjectivemeteoricmeteoriticmeteoroidalmeteorologicmeteorousadverbmeteoricallymeteorologicallynounmeteoristmeteoritemeteoriticistmeteoriticsmeteorogrammeteorographmeteoroidmeteorolitemeteorologistmeteorologymeteor
meteor shower• It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower.• No cometary meteor shower has ever produced a meteorite fall.• The randombackgroundmeteors that do not belong to discretemeteor showers are called sporadic meteors.• Bundle up for the annual Geminid meteor shower, peaking around midnight Dec. 13.• You might have thought that no meteor shower, no space dist had ever touched that brilliance.• On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shootingstars that we speak of a star or meteor shower.• Interestingly, three regularmeteor showers have orbits connected with three asteroids whose orbits bring them very close to Earth.• These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history, surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.
Originmeteor
(1500-1600)Frenchmétéore, from Medieval Latinmeteorum, from Greekmeteoron“something in the sky”, from meteoros“high in air”