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Meteor stream   /mˈitiər strim/   Listen
Meteor stream

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





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... nodes proved the path of the meteor stream to be retrograde. The radiant had almost the exact longitude of the point towards which the earth was moving. This proved that the meteor cluster was at perihelion. The period being known, the eccentricity of the orbit was obtainable, also ...
— History of Astronomy • George Forbes


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