Sentence examples for meteor from inspiring English sources

The wonder of a meteor shower, for instance, is reflected in an arrangement of bright golden leaves that resemble stars in a patch of shadowy woodland.

The great Leonid meteor shower was passing overhead.

Barring all-out nuclear war or a catastrophic meteor collision, a substantial minority of you will get a toe in the door of the next century – a very wrinkled, arthritic toe, but the same toe you're wearing now.

His death led to a diplomatic row between Russia and America.A 10,000-tonne meteor disintegrated over Chelyabinsk, a city in Russia near the border with Kazakhstan.

After that, no storm is predicted until 2098.In this section A black hole in the sky Bursting into life Take up thy bed and walk A Leonid meteor storm?

"He flared brilliantly across the face of the 20th century; the meteor is extinguished but its glow lingers on in the mind's eye".

No one doubts that asteroids have hit Earth in the past, with nasty consequences, but because the chances of any such event happening in a given year are so low, most people have been content to ignore the risk.Today, however, a meteor was seen streaking through the sky above Yekaterinburg in Russia.

As well as asserting America's might as a space-faring superpower, it would let researchers monitor the effects of very-long-term weightlessness on astronauts essential knowledge for the trip to Mars that, five years later, Mr Reagan's successor, George Bush, promised within three decades.In this section A black hole in the sky Bursting into life Take up thy bed and walk A Leonid meteor storm?

WHEN a meteor hit Earth near the end of the Cretaceous, around 66m years ago, the planet lost nearly three-quarters of its species.

Olympus was damaged during the Perseid meteor shower in 1993 and had to be taken out of service.

Stretch the metaphor a little and space even possesses something a little like precipitation, in the form of clouds of dust and rock that we see from Earth as meteor showers.For almost all of history, space weather was a mysterious, occasionally pretty irrelevance.