meteor
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For years, the Ames crater was thought to belong to a cluster of major meteor impacts across North America dating to roughly 467.5 million years ago.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
In Wales, the Midlands and Northern England it may be more of a struggle to see the meteor shower, with a slow-moving weather front providing cloud and outbreaks of rain.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
"This lets us more precisely infer causality between events in the geologic record, for example a meteor impact structure and a mass extinction," Renne said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Her daughter would arrive 13 days late, she wrote, “in the face of a solar eclipse and meteor shower,” which places the child’s birth date around Aug. 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Phillips asks Professor Pierson whether he’d still say this is a meteor.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Brighter meteors however should still be visible, particularly from darker locations away from artificial light.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
As tiny particles from the comet enter the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, they heat up and produce streaks of light across the night sky that we see as meteors.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Leonids can travel at about 70km per second as they enter the Earth's atmosphere, making them some of the fastest meteors visible from Earth.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
These meteors are visible all around the world and named because they appear to originate from the constellation Perseus.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Its gold eyes flared like meteors in the dusk.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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