Meteor (disambiguation)

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A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a heated and glowing object falling through the Earth's atmosphere.

Meteor may also refer to:

Astronomy and 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, a spacecraft recovery system being developed by the student-run Cambridge University society CU Spaceflight

Meteor, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
- Meteor (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States
Great Meteor Seamount, Portugal

Meteor (weather), any weather phenomenon, as studied in meteorology
Meteor (web framework), an open-source JavaScript web application development platform
METeOR, an Australian information repository
Meteor goldfish, a variety of goldfish having no tail fin
METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering), a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output

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
Mormon Meteor, a 1930s racing car
Volkswagen Meteor, a modified version of the MAN TGX made by Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus
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
List of ships named Meteor
- USS Meteor, several U.S. Navy ships
- HMS Meteor, several ships of the Royal Navy
- SMS Meteor, several ships of the Imperial German Navy

Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
Meteor (film), a 1979 science-fiction film
Meteor (miniseries), a 2009 disaster-science fiction two-part TV mini-series starring Billy Campbell and Marla Sokoloff
Meteor Records, an American record label
The Meteors, English psychobilly band formed in 1980
"Meteor" (Pink Lady song), 2019
"Meteor", song by Changmo
Kamen Rider Meteor, a fictional character in the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Fourze
Meteor, a powerful magic spell in the video game Final Fantasy VII
Meteors, a video game developed by Amusement World, notable for its recognition in Atari, Inc. v. Amusement World, Inc.
Meteor, a 1929 play by S. N. Behrman
Meteor, a science fiction short story by John Wyndham in the collection The Seeds of Time
Meteor (horse), a racing horse
Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop

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