Meteor Shower (Noun)
Meaning
A transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Examples
- The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most popular and spectacular meteor showers of the year, visible from mid-July to late August.
- A meteor shower occurs when Earth passes through a trail of comet or asteroid debris in its orbit around the Sun.
- The Geminid meteor shower is known for producing bright, fast-moving meteors that often leave glowing trails in the sky.
- During a meteor shower, small particles of debris enter the Earth's atmosphere at high speeds, producing the bright streaks of light we see as meteors.
- The Leonid meteor shower is known for producing some of the brightest and most frequent meteors of any meteor shower, with peak rates of up to several thousand meteors per hour.