All 3 Uses of
meteor
in
Dune
- =========================== There is a legend that the instant the Duke Leto Atreides died a meteor streaked across the skies above his ancestral palace on Caladan.†
Book 1 *
- A shower of meteors crossed her patch of night.†
Book 2
- The meteors seemed to her like a warning, like tiger stripes, like luminous grave slats clabbering her blood.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(meteor) a streak of light in the night sky that results from a space rock burning in the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteoroid: a small space rock that hit the earth's atmosphere
or:
a meteorite: a stony or metallic object that is the remains of a meteoroid that reached the earth's surface