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A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere is called a meteor, or colloquially a shooting star or falling star. If a meteoroid reaches the ground and survives impact, then it is called a meteorite.
Works[edit]
- Chapter 15: Navigational Astronomy from The American Practical Navigator, 1802 by the United States government
- Chapter 1: The Romance of the Heavens from The Outline of Science, by John Arthur Thomson
Journal articles[edit]
- "An Account of several fiery Meteors seen in North America" by John Winthrop in Philosophical Transactions, volume 54 (1764)
- Astro-Meteorology by Daniel Kirkwood as it appeared in the July 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- The August and November Meteors by Heinrich Schellen as it appeared in the August 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- On Meteoric Stones by Nevil Story Maskelyne as it appeared in the November 1872 Popular Science Monthly
- The Great Iowa Meteor by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs as it appeared in the September 1875 Popular Science Monthly
- The Story of the November Meteors by George Johnstone Stoney as it appeared in the August 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- Expected Meteoric Display by Richard Anthony Proctor as it appeared in the December 1879 Popular Science Monthly
- The August Meteors by William Frederick Denning as it appeared in the December 1880 Popular Science Monthly
- The Meteors of November 13th-15th by Daniel Kirkwood as it appeared in the February 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- The Discovery of Organic Remains in Meteoric Stones by Francis Birgham as it appeared in the November 1881 Popular Science Monthly
- A Singular Meteoric Phenomenon, by George Belknap as it appeared in the February 1883 Science
- Astro-Meteorology, Kirkwood, Daniel (1872) Popular Science Monthly
- The August and November Meteors, Schellen, Heinrich (1872)Popular Science Monthly
- On Meteoric Stones, Maskelyne, Nevil Story (1872) Popular Science Monthly
- The Great Iowa Meteor, Hinrichs, Gustavus Detlef (1875) Popular Science Monthly
- The Story of the November Meteors, Stoney, George Johnstone (1879) Popular Science Monthly
- The August Meteors, Denning, William Frederick (1880) Popular Science Monthly
- The Meteors of November 13th-15th, Kirkwood, Daniel (1881) Popular Science Monthly
- The Discovery of Organic Remains in Meteoric Stones, Birgham, Francis (1881) Popular Science Monthly
Reference[edit]
- Meteors from the The New Student's Reference Work
- "Meteor," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Meteorite," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Fiction[edit]
- The Colour Out of Space, 1927 by H. P. Lovecraft