Meteor (disambiguation)

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The word meteor refers to phenomena that are high in the sky. This yields two well-known and seemingly disparate terms:

• Meteorology, the study of weather
• Meteor or shooting star, a visible trace of a meteoroid (cf. meteoroid and meteorite)

Meteor may also refer to:

• Meteor, Wisconsin

In the sciences

• Meteor (goldfish), a rare variety of goldfish
• Dodecatheon, in botany a shooting star is a member of the genus, which has flowers with stamens thrust out, and the sepals bent back
• Meteoric water, water in the ground which originates from precipitation

In business

• Meteor (mobile network), Ireland's third mobile phone operator who trade solely as Meteor
• Meteor Vineyards, a vineyard in Napa Valley

In space exploration

• Meteor (rocket), a Polish meteorology rocket
• Meteor (satellite), a series of weather satellites of the Soviet Union
• METEOR (satellite), a NASA microgravity satellite which failed to reach orbit after its launch in 1995
• CU Spaceflight#Meteor, a spacecraft recovery system being developed

In transport

• Météor, a codename for the Paris Métro Line 14
• Meteor (car), a brand of car from Ford Motor Company of Canada
• 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 (ship), an 1896 built lake freighter of the experimental whaleback design and currently used as a museum in Superior, Wisconsin
• Meteor (research vessel), the name of three German research vessels 1924-1939, 1964-1985, 1986
• Meteor (yacht) German emperor Wilhelm II's yacht, the former Thistle. In 1895, it was sold to the German Navy as a school yacht and renamed Comet.

In entertainment

• Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
• Meteor (film) a 1979 science fiction film
• The Meteor Man (film), a 1993 superhero movie
• Meteor Records, a record label
• The Meteors, a psychobilly band
• Meteor, a level in the video game Star Fox

In weaponry

• The Meteor hammer, a Chinese martial arts weapon or dance prop
• Gloster Meteor, a British jet fighter aircraft
• 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

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