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meteor comparison table

Subject	has average interval time	has definition	produce	has product	has location	has synonym	is a kind of
impact event		The collision of two celestial bodies	a crater			world point	celestial event
naked eye object		a physical object visible to the unnaided human eye			or center of gravity		physical object
meteor	one per hour from a given location on Earth, higher during meteorite shower	A "shooting star" - the streak of light in the sky produced by the transit of a meteoroid through the Earth's atmosphere; also the glowing meteoroid itself. The term "fireball" is sometimes used for a meteor approaching the brightness of Venus; the term "bolide" for one approaching the brightness of the full Moon.	sonic boom	meteorite (if meteoroid does not burn up)	or center of gravity	shooting star	naked eye object

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