When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, frictional, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gasses cause the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a meteor or shooting / falling star.

When a small meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere at a high velocity, it produces a streak of light as the object is vaporized.

When the meteor landed, Glaaki was freed, and the impact created the lake wherein he now resides.

When Superman and the meteor struck the barrier, they were both shunted into an alternate dimension of " funny animals " later designated Earth-C.

When in " Sleeper ", Lana falls into a catatonic state having been attacked by the Kryptonian artificial intelligence known as Brainiac ( James Marsters ), Chloe takes over Lana ’ s Isis Foundation, a free clinic for individuals who have been infected by the meteor rocks.

When the meteor makes a course correction upon reaching orbit, Matthew discovers that it isn't a meteor coming, but a United States spacecraft.

When Aladar is an adult, the island is destroyed when an asteroid crashes on earth, causing a meteor shower, with only Aladar, his grandfather Yar, his mother Plio, his best friend Zini and his sister Suri surviving the destruction of the island by swimming to the mainland.

When Super-Skrull is defeated, Thanos arrives and plans to use the Power Infinity Gem to throw Super-Skrull at Hulk and Iron Man only for both of them to be hit by an engine knocked off by a meteor.

When Megatron came to suspect this, he strapped Scorponok to a meteor and hurled him at Earth's Energon Grid, hoping to force Alpha Q out of hiding to rescue his minion.

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.

When a meteor is soon to hit the town, the townspeople call Paul back to help them.

When going to claim his remains at a pyramid dubbed " Japan's Pyramid ," a meteor falls from the sky containing an evil life-form that seeks total destruction.

When a meteor fell from the sky one night, he forged the metal from the meteor into a dagger, the balaraw.

When words can be used in a more fresh and primitive way so that they strike with the force of sights and sounds, when tones of sound and colors of paint and the carven shape all strike the sensibilities with an undeniable force of data in and of themselves, compelling the observer into an attitude of attention, all this imitates the way experience itself in its deepest character strikes upon the door of consciousness and clamors for entrance.

When the plague strikes, he finds himself trapped in a city with which he feels he has no connection.

When Young's career began, pitchers delivered the baseball underhand and fouls were not counted as strikes.

When the key is pressed, the tangent strikes the strings above, causing them to sound in a similar fashion to the hammering technique on a guitar.

When light strikes a material, most of the light is absorbed while a smaller amount of a particular frequency or wavelength is reflected.

When the hammer strikes, the head gets stopped by an opposite force coming from the target ; which is equal and opposite to the force applied by the head to the target.

When the colonial administration rejected the People's Assembly's recommendations, Nkrumah organized a " Positive Action " campaign on 01 January 1950, including civil disobedience, non-cooperation, boycotts, and strikes.

When ionizing radiation strikes a semiconductor, it may excite an electron out of its energy level and consequently leave a hole.

When a wave strikes a reflective surface, it changes direction, such that the angle made by the incident wave and line normal to the surface equals the angle made by the reflected wave and the same normal line.

When a returning reflection strikes another discontinuity, some of the signal rebounds in the original signal direction, creating multiple echo effects.

When a photon of sufficient energy strikes the diode, it excites an electron, thereby creating a free electron ( and a positively charged electron hole ).

When the second mallet strikes the bar the first mallet is removed.

When a hollow-point hunting bullet strikes a soft target, the pressure created in the pit forces the material ( usually lead ) around the inside edge to expand outwards, increasing the axial diameter of the projectile as it passes through.

When Perseus arrives in Larissa, he participates in some funeral games and accidentally strikes Acrisius on the head with a discus, killing him and fulfilling the prophecy.

When ionizing radiation strikes the tube, some of the molecules of the fill gas are ionized, either directly by the incident radiation or indirectly by means of secondary electrons produced in the walls of the tube.

When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir's largest ox to use as his bait.

When whites used economic retaliation local Blacks seeking school integration in 1956 after the US Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, students came to their support with hunger strikes, boycotts, and mass marches.

When Perry took over in 1994, the Bosnian Serbs were besieging Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, but the Serbs were forced to draw back in face of a UN ultimatum and warning of air strikes.

When a clavichord key is pressed, a small metal tangent strikes a string and remains in contact with it for as long as the key is held down.

When the fee goes up to two bars, Farwell strikes DeCruz with the gold bricks, killing him.

When the UV photon strikes a phosphor molecule, it momentarily raises the energy level of an outer orbit electron in the phosphor molecule, moving the electron from a stable to an unstable state ; the electron then sheds the excess energy as a photon at a lower energy level than UV light ; the lower energy photons are mostly in the infrared range but about 40 % are in the visible light range.

When a bowler bowls two strikes in succession, within a game, the bowler has scored a " double ".

When a bowler bowls three strikes in succession, within a game, the bowler has scored a " triple " ( also called a " turkey ").

When light strikes a charged photocathode plate, electrons are emitted through a vacuum tube that strike the microchannel plate that cause the image screen to illuminate with a picture in the same pattern as the light that strikes the photocathode, and is on a frequency that the human eye can see.

When chasing a car on a highway in " Marge on the Lam ", he was asked to describe his location, and replied " I'm on a road, looks to be asphalt -- aw jeez, trees, shrubs -- uh, I'm directly under the earth's Sun ... now.

When applied to a portion of the earth's surface, which is curved rather than flat, " square mile " is an informal synonym for section.

When the sun has covered exactly 15 degrees ( 1 / 24 of a circle, both angles being measured in a plane perpendicular to the earth's axis ), local apparent time is 13: 00 exactly ; after 15 more degrees it will be 14: 00 exactly.

When Professor X was sighted, Mold ordered him to be captured alive, in order that she may use her replicated version of Cerebro on him to locate all of earth's mutants.

When the missile is in this transition state, the first stage booster sheds off, and the missile automatically adapts its " free " trajectory and further reaches its maximum altitude ( without a constant velocity ); the dominating force here is just the earth's gravity.