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    The Meteor spacecraft are weather observation satellites launched by the Soviet Union and Russia. The Meteor satellite series was initially developed during...
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    The Chelyabinsk meteor was a superbolide that entered Earth's atmosphere over the southern Ural region in Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT...
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  • surface. Meteor may also refer to: Meteor (rocket), a Polish meteorology rocket (1963–1974) Meteor (satellite), three series of weather satellites of the...
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  • Meteor is a 1979 American science fiction disaster film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. The film's premise, which...
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  • Meteor-M №2-4 (alternatively, Meteor-M number 2-4) is a Russian meteorological satellite which is part of the Meteor-M No.2 series of satellites that are...
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    Meteor Crater or Barringer Crater is an impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the desert of northern...
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    Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by Starlink Services, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American aerospace company SpaceX, providing...
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    Leonids (redirect from Leonid meteor shower)
    LEE-ə-nidz) are a prolific annual meteor shower associated with the comet Tempel–Tuttle, and are also known for their spectacular meteor storms that occur about...
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  • Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, Bion and Meteor satellites were also given Kosmos designations. The designation is given only to satellites which are in Earth orbit....
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    Meteor-M No.1 was the first of the Russian Meteor-M series of polar-orbiting weather satellites. It was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat...
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    Meteor-M No.2-1 (Russian: Метеор-М №2-1), was a Russian satellite, part of Meteor-M series of polar-orbit weather satellite. It was launched using Soyuz-2...
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    Meteoroid (redirect from Meteor)
    Constellations, Satellites and Other Night Sky Wonders Without a Telescope[ISBN missing][page needed] Erickson, Philip J. "Millstone Hill UHF Meteor Observations:...
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    The Geminids are a prolific meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid with a "rock comet" orbit. This...
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    Meteor-M No.2 (also known as Meteor M2) was the second Russian Meteor-M series of polar-orbit weather satellite. It was launched on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket...
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    short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. John A. O'Keefe, who conducted several studies of the event, proposed that the meteors should be referred to...
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  • A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called...
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    space, an SPT-50 aboard a Soviet Meteor spacecraft, was launched December 1971. They were mainly used for satellite stabilization in north–south and in...
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    Meteor burst communications (MBC), also referred to as meteor scatter communications, is a radio propagation mode that exploits the ionized trails of...
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  • Meteor-1-1 was the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, and was launched 26 March 1969 on a Vostok rocket. It weighed between 1,200...
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    Impact event (redirect from Meteor impact)
    2004.tb00062.x Grand Teton Meteor Video on YouTube "Collisions with Near Earth Objects". www.aerospaceweb.org. Satellite Study Establishes Frequency...
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    are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift–Tuttle that are usually visible from mid-July to late-August. The meteors are called the...
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    Moon (redirect from Luna (satellite))
    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Over time...
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    scientifically observed. Meteor procession of July 20, 1860 Meteor procession of February 9, 1913 led to conclusions a temporary satellite capture of Earth had...
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    reentering satellite debris and generally assumed it to be a meteor. Astronomer Paul Annear said the fireball was likely to have been a meteor entering...
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  • reflections from the shower's meteor trails can be observed. Although not by strict definition terrestrial TV DX, satellite UHF TVRO reception is related...
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  • Kosmos 156 (category Weather satellites of the Soviet Union)
    experimental "Meteor" weather satellite system. In 1969, the Kosmos satellite series was scrapped for the more modern and updated Meteor satellite. Kosmos 156...
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  • ESA satellite and a SpaceX Starlink satellite, when ESA tweeted/complained at having to move to avoid the Starlink satellite. Space debris Meteor Kessler...
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    Sputnik 1 (/ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit...
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    Chelyabinsk meteor's entry in February 2013, and the third largest recorded meteor since 1900 after that and the Tunguska event. NASA's Terra satellite and the...
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    Tunguska event (redirect from Tongu meteor)
    three people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres...
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