meteor
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The keen photographer, 34, said he had seen shooting stars but never something of this "calibre", and was surprised to see what he believed was a "massive meteor flying through the sky".
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Footage of the meteor was captured in Hornsea, Billingborough and Moulton Seas End among other locations.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Charlotte Bays, secretary of the UK Fireball Alliance, said the meteor had been spotted across northern Europe at about 00:24 BST on Monday, but finding any material from it was unlikely.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
They also described flashes of light -- meteor strikes -- on the Moon's surface.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026
Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing meteor
Over The Moon: Planetary Vocabulary
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Space Science (Astronomy) - Introductory
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