0 a piece of rock or other matter from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the atmosphere
1 a small piece of matter that falls from space with great speed, producing a bright light as it enters the earth’s atmosphere (= the air surrounding it)
Suppose the stock of knowledge could be improved to permit deflecting or destroying the meteor before it caused harm.
Other teams using the standard model were either unsuccessful, or had to use fitting to past meteor storms to empirically set their prediction parameters.
Then instead of a star over some variable glyph, the actual logograph was meant to depict a star in motion-a meteor.
A chance meteor, a chance eruption, or a chance alteration in solar activity can not only devastate life but also obliterate it.
Shouldn't the term be applied to students of meteors and other heavenly bodies?
Since they do occur fairly regularly, one could conceivably attempt a correlation of the major yearly meteor showers with the timing of warfare.
On the other hand, in some reports there are much more explicit links, suggesting that red rain fell from clouds during a meteor shower.
And this was the rule for hundreds of meteors who did not leave any signs of their passage.