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Definition of Meteor stream

1. Noun. A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteor Stream

Literary usage of Meteor stream

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1884)
"On the possible Connection of the Pons-Brooks Comet with a Meteor-stream*. ... evidence of the existence of a meteor-stream which may possibly stand in some ..."

2. The Observatory (1884)
"On the possible Connection of the Pons-Brooks Comet with a Meteor-stream*. I DESIRE to call attention to some slight evidence of the existence of a ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"... is the confirmation they afford of tho view recently brought forward by Mr. Alexander Herschel. that the November meteor-stream is not single. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In 1366, a few days after the earth went through the meteor stream, ... But the meteor stream« of 1872 could hardly have been separated from the comet so ..."

5. Essays on Astronomy: A Series of Papers on Planets and Meteors, the Sun and by Richard Anthony Proctor (1872)
"... THE NOVEMBER METEOR-STREAM. LAST year [1868] I discussed the figure of the November meteor-orbit, showing how we learn from the researches of Professor ..."

6. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1870)
"... and, then, by combining together the information thus obtained, let us endeavour to form a conception of the shape of the meteor- stream. ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"This great meteor stream consists conspicuously of two classes of meteors, one or both of which are found in every meteor stream. ..."

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