Meteor (disambiguation)

A meteor, commonly called a shooting star and falling star, is the visible trace of a meteoroid as it enters the atmosphere. If it survives impact with the Earth's surface, then it is called a meteorite.

Meteorology, the study of weather, is cognate. Both words derive from the Greek μετέωρος, meteōros, which means "high in the air".

In geography

• Meteor, Wisconsin, a town, United States
  • Meteor (community), Wisconsin, an unincoporated community, United States
• Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States

In the sciences

• METeOR, an Australian information repository
• Meteor goldfish, a rare variety of goldfish
• Hydrometeor, a term which refers to any phenomenon water-vapor related which exists within the Earth's atmosphere due to condensation, precipitation, or being blown into the atmosphere by the wind
• Meteoric water, water in the ground which originates from precipitation
• METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering), a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output

In business

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

In space exploration

• Meteor (rocket), a Polish meteorology rocket (1963–1974)
• Meteor (satellite), three series of weather satellites of the Soviet Union, starting in 1969
• 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 (automobile), a brand of car from Ford Motor Company of Canada (1949–1976)
• 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
• The name of three German research vessels: Meteor (1915), RV Meteor (1964) and RV Meteor (1986)
• Meteor, German emperor Wilhelm II's yacht, the former Thistle, which was sold in 1895 to the German Navy to be used as a school yacht and renamed Comet
• SS Meteor, any of several steamships named Meteor
• USS Meteor, any of several U.S. Navy ships
• HMS Meteor, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
• Meteor, motor ship, type of hydrofoil ships of Russia

In entertainment

• Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
• Meteor (film) a 1979 science-fiction film
• Meteor (TV miniseries), a 2009 disaster/science fiction two-part TV mini-series starring Billy Campbell & Marla Sokoloff
• 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
• Meteor, a very powerful magic spell was a major plot device in the video game Final Fantasy VII
• Meteor, a 1929 play by S. N. Behrman
• METEOR (Gundam), a fictional weapon system from the anime Gundam metaseries
• Meteor, the German language edition of the 2001 Dan Brown novel, Deception Point
• Kamen Rider Meteor, a fictional character appears in the TV series Kamen Rider Fourze.

In weaponry

• The Meteor hammer, a Chinese martial arts weapon or dance prop
• Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet (1943–1970s)
• 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