A meteor, known colloquially as a shooting star, is a glowing streak of a small body (usually meteoroid) going through Earth's atmosphere, after being...
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METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering) is a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output. The metric is based...
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meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors...
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The Meteor is a European active radar guided beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) developed and manufactured by MBDA. It offers a multi-shot...
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Meteor was the first British jet fighter and the Allies' only jet aircraft to engage in combat operations during the Second World War. The Meteor's development...
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Meteor Lake is the codename for Core Ultra Series 1 mobile processors, designed by Intel and officially released on December 14, 2023. It is the first...
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The meteor hammer (Chinese: 流星錘; pinyin: liúxīng chuí), often referred to simply as meteor (Chinese: 流星; pinyin: liúxīng), is an ancient Chinese weapon...
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The Chelyabinsk meteor (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, romanised: Chelyabinskiy meteorit) was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern...
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Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...
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The Meteors are an English psychobilly band formed in 1980. Originally from London, England, they are one of the pioneers of the psychobilly subgenre...
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Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Meteor after the meteor, a space object. HMS Meteor (1797) was a 12-gun gun-brigl, launched at Leith...
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Look up Meteor, meteor, or meteor. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a heated and glowing...
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Named meteor showers recur at approximately the same dates each year. They appear to radiate from a certain point in the sky, known as the radiant, and...
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Meteor is a family of Polish sounding rockets series. The Meteor rockets were built between 1963 and 1974. Meteor was a series of one- and two-stage meteorological...
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SMS Meteor may refer to one of the following ships: SMS Meteor (1865), a gunboat of the Imperial German Navy SMS Meteor (1887), an Austrian-Hungarian...
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Geminids (redirect from Geminid meteor shower)
The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower with 3200 Phaethon (which is thought to be an Apollo asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit.) being the parent body...
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Leonids (redirect from Leonid meteor shower)
LEE-ə-nidz) are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about...
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A meteor procession occurs when an Earth-grazing meteor breaks apart, and the fragments travel across the sky in the same path. According to physicist...
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The Silver Meteor is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Miami, Florida. Introduced in 1939 as the first diesel-powered...
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The meteor goldfish is considered the rarest breed of goldfish. They are a tailless form thought to have been developed by goldfish breeders during the...
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METeOR (Metadata Online Registry), Australia’s repository for national metadata standards for health, housing and community services statistics and information...
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The Rolls-Royce Meteor later renamed the Rover Meteor is a British tank engine that was developed during the Second World War. It was used in British...
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Meteor is a 2009 American disaster television miniseries directed by Ernie Barbarash, written by Alex Greenfield and distributed by RHI Entertainment,...
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Meteor is a 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which...
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The Meteor Rideau is a full-size automobile which was produced by Ford Motor Company of Canada under its Meteor brand. It was produced from 1954 until...
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Meteor Garden may refer to: Meteor Garden (2001 TV series), Taiwanese TV adaptation of Japanese shōjo manga series Boys Over Flowers Meteor Garden II...
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Meteor! is a 1987 children's picture book by author Patricia Polacco. Polacco is well known for writing and illustrating stories depicting events from...
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The Meteor spacecraft are weather observation satellites launched by the Soviet Union and Russia since the Cold War. The Meteor satellite series was initially...
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Meteor Garden (Chinese: 流星花园; pinyin: Liúxīng Huāyuán) is a 2018 mainland Chinese television series starring Shen Yue, Dylan Wang, Darren Chen, Caesar...
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The Mercury Meteor is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from the 1961 to 1963 model years. Adopting its nameplate from the namesake Ford of Canada...
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