# 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