Research by Kondrat ' eva, Reznikov and colleagues at Kazan University had shown how meteor storms could be accurately predicted but for some years the worldwide meteor community remained largely unaware of these results.

* A 32-foot meteor explodes in the airspace west of Kashmir, raising fears that misidentifited meteor explosions could spark a nuclear war.

These observations led the astronomer to formulate the hypothesis, subsequently proved to be very exact, that the meteor showers could be the trails of comets.

Kaplan, himself a meteor expert, agreed they could not be conventional meteorite falls and informed LaPaz that he knew of no secret military projects that could explain the fireballs.

Hartmann's reasoning was that such ejected lunar meteors could account for the abnormally low velocities calculated for the green fireballs by LaPaz of about Earth's escape velocity, that is, much lower than normal meteor velocities.

* 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L ' Aigle, France ; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.

Perhaps the best-known meteor / meteorite fall is the Peekskill Meteorite,

Kiowa County has a large number of iron-rich meteorites in its soil due to the Brenham meteor fall over 10 thousand years ago.

When the rural American town of Lizard Breath witnesses a meteor fall, town geologist and player character Greg Bradley has to discover the source of some strange occurrences.

Still unable to beat Supreme, he merged the android body with Supremium, causing him to fall backwards in time not once but twice, appearing first as the Supremium Man in an earlier story and, after absorbing still more Supremium, as the very lump which landed as a meteor and gave Supreme his powers in the first place, creating a predestination paradox.

Six-year-old Zinni watches a meteor fall to Earth, then finds a small star-shaped decoration, which she believes to the remnant of the shooting star and she tries to get it back into the sky.

The poet Kurunko Koliyur Kilar who was present at the death of the king states that the death was portended by the fall of a meteor seven day previous to the occurrence.

A luminous meteor was observed and an object seen to fall with a loud roar in May 1826.

After the appearance of a bright meteor and detonations, a large mass was seen to fall and 45 kg were recovered in June 1902.

The amount of kryptonite on Earth increased dramatically, carried down to the planet's surface in a meteor shower that accompanied the rocket that brought Kara to Gotham City.

It was in 1866 – 67 that information on Comet Tempel-Tuttle was gathered pointing it out as the source of the meteor shower.

The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.

Recent work tries to take into account the roles of differences in parent bodies and the specifics of their orbits, ejection velocities off the solid mass of the core of a comet, radiation pressure from the sun, the Poynting – Robertson effect, and the Yarkovsky effect on the particles of different sizes and rates of rotation to explain differences between meteor showers in terms of being predominantly fireballs or small meteors.

Given that a far greater proportion of species and individual organisms became extinct during the former, doubt is cast on the significance of a meteor impact in creating the latter.

The massive mountain does not appear on a map of the original Ringworld, leading Louis to conclude that it is in fact the result of a meteor impact with the underside of the ring, which pushed the " mountain " up from the ring floor and broke through.

In the movie based on the show, the meteor was much bigger and also dried up the oceans, resulting in a post-apocalyptic world.

* November 12 – November 13 – Stars Fell on Alabama: A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed in Alabama.

Their origins are unknown, but they may be gravitationally captured into current orbit or they may be ejecta from meteor impacts on the moon.

* c. 680 BC — A meteor disaster on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, forming the Kaali crater.

* The Aurigid shower parent comet C / 1911 N1 ( Kiess ) returns to the inner solar system and sheds the dust particles that one revolution later cause the 1935, 1986, 1994, and 2007 Aurigid meteor outbursts on Earth.

The probable meteor may have landed in a remote area on the Botswana border, and likely made little impact.

A meteor was observed striking Reisadalen in Nordreisa municipality in Troms County, Norway, on June 7, 2006.

The 2008 American Broadcasting Company's miniseries Impact deals about a splinter of a brown dwarf hidden in a meteor shower which strikes the Moon and sends it on a collision course with Earth.

* All 172 confirmed meteor impact sites on earth, viewable in Google Earth ( Largest, Most recent, Per continent, Including size indicator )

( Later on in the book Masen again theorises that both the ' meteor shower ' and subsequent plague may have been an orbiting government weapons system that was triggered accidentally.

Returning to Cumaná, Humboldt observed, on the night of November 11 – 12, a remarkable meteor shower ( the Leonids ).

The men acted out the violence which had allowed the Morning Star to mate with the Evening Star ( by breaking her vaginal teeth ) in their creation story, with a “ meteor stone .” During the Morning Star ceremony, the captive was shot in the heart and a “ man struck her on the head with the war club from the Morning Star bundle .” By having all the men in the village shoot arrows into her body, the village men, embodiments of Morning Star, were symbolically mating with her.

Smallville is famous for a meteor shower that hit the town in 1989, and for the lingering effects of the meteor rocks on the town and some of its citizens.

According to the Scientific American of May 27, 1893, Osawatomie was struck by a meteor on April 8, 1893, striking the statue of John Brown.

An observer of objects in the solar system, Schiaparelli worked with binary stars, discovered the asteroid 69 Hesperia on April 26, 1861, and demonstrated that the Perseids and Leonids meteor showers were associated with comets.

is based on a true story of a meteor that fell on a farm in the town.

Examples include the San Francisco project, the WildLab, iNaturalist, and Project Noah iPhone apps for monitoring birds, marine wildlife, and other organisms, and the NASA meteor counter app.

The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.

The flux of micrometeorites in the neighborhood of the Earth can be estimated by extrapolation from radar and visual meteor data.

Amateur astronomers watch the night sky during the Perseids | Perseid meteor shower.

Common targets of amateur astronomers include the Moon, planets, stars, comets, meteor showers, and a variety of deep sky objects such as star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae.

* The middle week of August is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

It is the peak of the Perseid meteor shower.

* 1783 – A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.

For a meteor, the standard distance for measurement of magnitudes is at an altitude of at the observer's zenith.

Gosses Bluff crater, one of a number of meteor impact crater s that can be found across outback Australia.

This light is occasionally described by subsequent interpreters as a meteor, sometimes as the moon, and some accounts also mention the barking of dogs.

Changes can also be caused by natural events such as a large meteor hitting Earth and selective breeding ( artificial selection ) of plants by humans for specific traits.

* In the movie The Monolith Monsters ( 1957 ), a silicon meteor reproduces, draining silicates from everything it touches.

The meteor is killed by salt water, which can stop the cycle.

In the Command & Conquer real-time strategy games, both the gameplay and storyline revolve heavily around the introduction to Earth of an extraterrestrial mutagen called Tiberium via meteor, which displays strikingly lifelike behaviours such as self-replication, evolution, and homeostasis, without undergoing anything like common carbon-based metabolic cycles, and which appears to be colonising the Earth, converting it into an environment unsuited to carbon-based biology.

In 2022, an explosion of an experimental hyperspace gateway severely damaged the Moon, resulting in a debris ring and meteor bombardments that eradicated a large portion of the Earth's population.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

The Gaelic word dréag or driug meaning " portent, meteor " is borrowed from either the Old English or the Old Norse word.

* 1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.

A large meteor hurtles towards Earth, and lands in the ocean, causing many natural disasters, such as typhoons, and awakens Godzilla.

* 1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.

The Leonids ( ) is a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel-Tuttle.

Sometimes these trails of meteoroids cause meteor showers.