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meteor
in
Turtles All the Way Down
(Edited)

There is a meteor shower Thursday night.
p. 135.1

meteor = streaks of light in the night sky that result from a space rocks burning in the earth's atmosphere
THE MORNING OF THE METEOR SHOWER, I arrived at school with Harold and discovered a bright orange Volkswagen Beetle parked in my usual spot.
p. 136.1
Him: Looks like it's going to be overcast tonight so no meteor shower.
p. 139.2
My primary interest is not the meteor shower.
p. 139.2
Like, there is still a meteor shower.
p. 149.3
"So, over here in the northern sky is the constellation Draco," he said, "which to me looks more like a kite than a dragon, but anyway, there would be meteors visible around here."
p. 149.6
There's not much moon tonight, so you could probably see five or ten meteors an hour.
p. 149.7
She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we could not see it.
p. 189.1 *

Definitions:

(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)