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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 |
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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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