Meteor (disambiguation)

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 solid piece of debris from such a body which survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere, and falls to the Earth's surface.

Meteor may also refer to:

Astronomy and space exploration

  • 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

Science and technology

  • 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

Transport

  • 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
  • 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
  • Meteor (1986), a German research vessel
  • Meteor (1915), a German survey vessel
  • Meteor, German Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht, the former Thistle, which was sold in 1895 to the German Navy to be used as a school yacht and renamed Comet
  • USS Meteor, several U.S. Navy ships
  • HMS Meteor, several ships of the Royal Navy
  • SMS Meteor, several ships of the Imperial German Navy
  • SS Meteor, several steamships

Entertainment & Arts

Weaponry

  • 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

Performing arts

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.