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The answer METEOR has 268 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of meteor in various dictionaries:
noun - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
noun - a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth’s atmosphere.
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| Temporary skylight? |
| Shower participant? |
| Falling star |
| Earth threatener |
| Shower part |
| Streak in the sky |
| Shooting star |
| One in a shower? |
| Part of a shower scene |
| Sort of shower |
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| 6-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere |
| Iridium-rich sediment around the world led to the hypothesis that one of these caused dinosaur extinction |
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| A bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the earth's atmosphere. Also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star. |
| a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light. |
| a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode |
| (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere |
| a piece of rock or other matter from space that produces a bright light as it travels through the atmosphere |
| a small piece of matter that falls from space with great speed, producing a bright light as it enters the earths atmosphere ( the air surrounding it) |
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| Meteor, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES |
| Meteor, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES |
| Meteor, Orenburg, RUSSIAN FEDERATION |
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A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. * Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the trail of glowing particles that it leaves in its wake. This phenomenon is called a meteor or "shooting star". A series of many meteors appearing seconds or minutes apart and appearing to originate from the same fixed point in the sky is called a meteor shower. If that object withstands ablation from its passage through the atmosphere as a meteor and impacts with the ground, it |