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meteor shower

celestial event caused by streams of meteoroids entering Earth's atmosphere
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meteor shower
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Summary

meteor shower ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,371 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: astronomical phenomenon[2]
  • Commons category: Meteor showers[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Meteor showers[4]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[5], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[6]
  • Topic has template: Template:Infobox meteor shower[7], Template:Meteor showers[8]
  • Has list: list of meteor showers[9]
  • P14541: 1eKQ8L[10]

Why It Matters

meteor shower has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 80 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Kwamikagami · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'cv', 'de', 'el', 'en', '
    Sitelink count → 64
    Astronomic symbol image → Meteor shower symbol (fixed width).svg
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Astronomic symbol image: Meteor shower symbol (fixed width).svg"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1eKQ8L
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/41251|batch #41251]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Has list → list of meteor showers
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2208677
    Local thumb → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007539992105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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