meteor

visible streak of light from a meteoroid that enters the Earth's atmosphere
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meteor

Summary

meteor is a meteor shower[1]. meteor ranks in the top 3% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,486 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • meteor's instance of is recorded as meteor shower[3].
  • meteor is a type of astronomical phenomenon[4].
  • meteor is a type of atmospheric phenomenon[5].
  • meteor is a type of light source[6].
  • meteor is part of meteor shower[7].
  • meteor's Commons category is recorded as Meteors[8].
  • meteor's Unicode character is recorded as 🌠[9].
  • meteor's has cause is recorded as meteoroid[10].
  • meteor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Meteors[11].
  • meteor's Commons gallery is recorded as Meteor[12].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[13].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[16].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Meteor[17].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • meteor's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21].
  • meteor's different from is recorded as list of meteorological phenomena[22].
  • meteor's different from is recorded as Meteora[23].
  • meteor's different from is recorded as meteor[24].

Body

Definition and Type

meteor's instance of is recorded as meteor shower[3]. Recorded subclass of include astronomical phenomenon[4], atmospheric phenomenon[5], and light source[6].

Use and Application

meteor is part of meteor shower[7].

Why It Matters

meteor ranks in the top 3% of meteor_shower entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,486 views/month).[2] meteor has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] meteor is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of meteor shower
    Part of
    Topic's main category Category:Meteors
    Has cause meteoroid
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5721, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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