All 8 Uses of
meteor
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- There is a meteor shower Thursday night.
p. 135..0meteor = 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..0
- 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..3
- Like, there is still a meteor shower.
p. 149..4
- "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.
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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