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Definition of Meteor swarm
1. Noun. A group of meteoroids with similar paths.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteor Swarm
Literary usage of Meteor swarm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"... the meteor swarm does not occur every year, showing that the meteors are
stretched out through a relatively small portion of the orbit: thus, ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1898)
"By Isaac Roberts, D.Sc., FRS The first attempt to photograph the Leonid Meteor
Swarm was made last year, and was reported upon to the Society at the meeting ..."
3. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"The elements are as follows : For the Meteor-swarm. For the Comet. ... In the
yearly recurring meteor-swarm of April 2Oth, a similar connection is to be ..."
4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1899)
""The head of a comet seems therefore to be merely a meteor-swarm containing so
much gaseous material that when electrified by its approach to the Sun, ..."
5. A Text-book of Astronomy by George Cary Comstock (1901)
"179. The development of a comet.—We saw in § I1?' that the sun's action upon a
meteor swarm tends ^ break it up into a long stream, and the same tendency t ..."
6. Modern Cosmogonies by Agnes Mary Clerke (1905)
"Waiving, then, preliminary objections, we find ourselves confronted with the
fundamental question : Given a meteor-swarm of the requisite mass and ..."
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