Steven Spielberg

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

American Director

Elif Batuman

Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

American Author

Paula Yates

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle.

Welsh Entertainer

Tycho Brahe

I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.

Danish Scientist

Michio Kaku

Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.

American Physicist

Andra Day

I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!

American Musician

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

English Scientist

Christine Lahti

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

American Actress

Ernestine Rose

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

American Activist

Jack London

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

American Novelist

Emphasize that 'meteor' is matter originally from space, not created on Earth.

Space Origin

Understand 'meteor' heats up due to friction when entering Earth's atmosphere, creating light.

Atmospheric Entry

Distinguish between 'meteor' in the sky and 'meteorite', which is a meteor that lands on Earth.

Not Meteorite

Used metaphorically, 'meteor' suggests something is sudden and impressive, but potentially short-lived.

Metaphorical Use

Using 'meteor' to describe events emphasizes their unexpected and dramatic nature.

Remarkable Events

Though often positive, 'meteor' can also imply a negative sudden impact or occurrence.

Not Always Positive

 things on sort of craters on the moon or new species of animals so I'm going to give you the chance to get your name on a new symmetrical object which hasn't been named before and this thing species died away and moons kind of get hit by meteors and explode but this mathematical object will live forever it

Symmetry, reality's...

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Lucy in the Sky with...

 there is a crater in the desert there that is so iconic that is actually called meteor crater to give you a sense of scale this is about a mile wide if you look up at the top that's a parking lot and those are recreational vehicles right there so it's about a mile across six hundred feet deep

How to defend Earth from...

 direction we need a meteor to streak through the sky a shooting star can you tell us about it and what sky is that right and I said well sure but what's your interest in this and they said we saw what you did to tie tack again we have a lot of here we don't want me to wrap up in bourbon

Neil and Seth on the...

 and did in the dinosaurs. And the story is, we're the next meteor. Well, here's the deal. I wound up researching this for a paper I wrote, that a mass extinction is when 75 percent of all the species in the world go extinct. Well, there's on the order of five-and-a-half-million species,

Mammoths resurrected and...

 or new species of animals. So I'm going to give you the chance to get your name on a new symmetrical object which hasn't been named before. And this thing -- species die away, and moons kind of get hit by meteors and explode -- but this mathematical object will live forever.

Marcus du Sautoy:...

 it's frightening to imagine all that interplanetary debris flying toward us cameras around the world have captured meteors falling from the sky and although some eventually hit most of them disintegrate or burn off the remaining pieces fall into the ocean

Meteor Showers 101 PIPE...

 that a cataclysmic meteor impact were volcano left few survivors with little competition and plenty of room to grow another says that his countenance drifted apart the climate became more favorable to plant life the resulting

Fossil Record Mystery PIPE...

 Before going to bed, she observes the course of the planets and consults her charts, trying to make sense of the meteor she saw earlier. The signs are converging on a larger threat than their neighbors.

A day in the life of a...

 the probable lifespan of humanity or consciousness. Human civilization could come to an end for external reasons, like a giant meteor or super volcanoes or extreme climate change.