Definition of meteor

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meteor

The term 'meteor ' as it applies to the area of basic science can be defined as 'bright trail or streak that appears in the sky when a meteoroid is heated to incandescence by friction with the Earth's atmosphere; also called falling star, meteor burst, shooting star'.

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