Meteor (disambiguation)

A meteor or "shooting star" is the visible streak of light from a heated and glowing object falling through the Earth's atmosphere.
 * A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body travelling through outer space.
 * A meteorite is a rock that has fallen from space to the Earth's surface.

Meteor may also refer to:

Astronomy and space exploration

 * Meteor (rocket), a Polish meteorology rocket (1963–1974)
 * Meteor (satellite), three series of weather satellites of the Soviet Union, starting in 1969
 * Meteor, a spacecraft recovery system being developed by the student-run Cambridge University society CU Spaceflight

Geography

 * Meteor, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
 * Meteor (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, United States
 * Meteor Crater, Arizona, United States
 * Great Meteor Seamount, Portugal

Science and technology

 * Meteor (weather), any weather phenomenon, as studied in meteorology
 * Meteor (web framework), an open-source JavaScript web application development platform
 * METeOR, an Australian information repository
 * Meteor goldfish, a variety of goldfish having no tail fin
 * METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering), a metric for the evaluation of machine translation output

Business

 * Meteor (mobile network), a defunct mobile phone operator in Ireland
 * Meteor Vineyard, a vineyard in Napa Valley

Transport

 * Météor, a codename for the Paris Métro Line 14
 * Meteor (automobile), a brand of car from Ford Motor Company of Canada (1949–1976)
 * Ford Meteor, a car model, available 1981–1995
 * Mercury Meteor, a car in North America, 1961–1963
 * Mormon Meteor, a 1930s racing car
 * Volkswagen Meteor, a modified version of the MAN TGX made by Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus
 * Meteor (St. Louis-San Francisco Railway), a named passenger train
 * Silver Meteor, an Amtrak train service
 * Meteor, a South Devon Railway Comet class 4-4-0ST steam locomotive
 * List of ships named Meteor
 * USS Meteor, several U.S. Navy ships
 * HMS Meteor, several ships of the Royal Navy
 * SMS Meteor, several ships of the Imperial German Navy

Arts and entertainment

 * Meteor Music Awards, Ireland's national music awards, also known as "The Meteors"
 * Meteor (film), a 1979 science-fiction film
 * Meteor (miniseries), a 2009 disaster-science fiction two-part TV mini-series starring Billy Campbell and Marla Sokoloff
 * Meteor Records, an American record label
 * The Meteors, English psychobilly band formed in 1980
 * "Meteor" (Pink Lady song), 2019
 * "Meteor", song by Changmo
 * Kamen Rider Meteor, a fictional character in the Japanese television series Kamen Rider Fourze
 * Meteor, a powerful magic spell in the video game Final Fantasy VII
 * Meteors, a video game developed by Amusement World, notable for its recognition in Atari, Inc. v. Amusement World, Inc.
 * Meteor, a 1929 play by S. N. Behrman
 * Meteor, a science fiction short story by John Wyndham in the collection The Seeds of Time
 * Meteor (horse), a racing horse
 * Meteor (juggling), a juggling prop

Weaponry

 * The Meteor hammer, a Chinese martial arts weapon or dance prop
 * Gloster Meteor, the first British jet fighter and the Allies' first operational jet (1943–1970s)
 * Rolls-Royce Meteor, a tank engine version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin
 * MBDA Meteor, a next-generation beyond visual range air-to-air missile
 * BSA Meteor Air Rifle, a Birmingham Small Arms Company-manufactured air rifle