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meteor
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Hyperion
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- Hyperion's small moon is not visible tonight but this world moves through more debris than is common for a planet so close to its sun and the night skies are illuminated by frequent meteor showers.†
Part 1meteor = a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- Tonight the heavens are especially fertile and when we move onto wide sections of the river we can see a tracery of brilliant meteor trails weaving the stars together.†
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- I walked back to our tent and its circle of biolumi-nescent lantern light as the first fusillade of meteor showers burned the skies overhead and distant explosions from the flame forests rippled along the southern and western horizons like cannon fire from some ancient war on pre-Hegira Old Earth.†
Part 1
- I sit here under the darkening crag and I listen to the suddenly ominous moaning rising with the night wind from the Cleft and I pray as the sky lights with the blood-red streaks of meteor trails.†
Part 1
- The wind music had ended and meteors were beginning their nightly show through cracks in low clouds when I heard a sound behind me and turned to find all seventy of the Three Score and Ten behind me.†
Part 1meteors = streaks of light in the sky caused by small space rocks burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- I did pause long enough to glance up at the lip of the Cleft three hundred meters above and to see that the clouds were gone, the stars were out, and the nightly ballet of meteor trails was bright against a sable sky.†
Part 1meteor = a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- Sitting on the balcony at Cicero's, it was all too easy to fall back into the rhythms of a former life; he would drink until the early morning hours, watch the predawn meteor showers as the clouds cleared, and then stagger to his empty apartment near the market, going into the consulate four hours later showered, shaved, and seemingly human except for the blood in his eyes and the insane ache in his skull.†
Part 2
- By the time the constellations emerged and the meteor trails began scarring the night sky, a brilliant display this far from all man-made light, the lanterns had been lit and dinner set out on the aft deck.†
Part 3
- It was at the height of the autumn meteor season and Hyperion's night skies were already ablaze with gold streaks and red crisscrosses of flame when the seedship's engines fired, a small sun flared, and for an hour we watched as friends and fellow artists receded as a streak of fusion flame.†
Part 3
- The bronze Laocon wrestled with bronze snakes in the flickering illumination of the predawn meteor showers.†
Part 3
- I saw Billy blink and splutter, I saw the slickness on the Shrike's chiseled muzzle reflect the meteor-brightened sky, and then the dying embers of burned pages in Billy's still clenched fists ignited the kerosene.†
Part 3
- The sky was a great, star-splashed bowl above them, scarred by meteor trails.†
Part 4
- The stars and meteor trails paled to insignificance beside the sudden display.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(meteor) a streak of light in the sky caused by a small space rock (a meteoroid) burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)