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... The flash of light from this incineration is correctly called a meteor. ... A meteor is formed when an object, usually the size of a marble or a piece of popcorn, hits the atmosphere at an altitude of 80 ...
... Meteor Streams , a concise table of meteor shower data . Gary Kronk's Meteor Showers page . ... the Dutch Meteor Society -- info about current meteor showers (and more) . Leonid Meteor Outburst Home Page . ...
... intersects a meteor stream, the meteor rate is increased and a meteor shower results ... A particularly intense meteor shower is called a meteor storm. ... meteors are believed to have had a gradual loss of orbital coherence with a meteor ...
... Satellite multispectral imaging system ( KMSS ) and Coordinate&clock referencing system ( KKVO ) has been installed onboard "Meteor-M" s/c. These systems are used for Earth surface and atmosphere imaging as well as navigation measurements aimed at real ...
... it is heated to incandescence and the visible streak in the sky is known as a meteor ... M illions of meteors bright enough to see strike the Earth every day (amounting to ...
... One of the best preserved examples is Barringer Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona. ... atmosphere at high velocity, friction causes this chunk of space matter to incinerate in a streak of light known as a meteor ...
... The meteors in our night sky are visible evidence of bodies of this type burning up ... The famous meteor crater in northern Arizona, some 1.2 kilometers (4,000 feet) in ...