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5 unusual facts about meteoroid


Earthquake weather

A later theory stated that earthquakes occurred in calm, cloudy conditions, and were usually preceded by strong winds, fireballs, and meteors.

Galactic Pinball

A distinguishing features of the Colony board is where the user shoots down various meteors to save the Colony from attack in a three dimensional perspective.

Jess-Belle

After this, Ellwyn does not remember anything that happened since the wedding, but claims, upon seeing a falling star that "it means a witch has died."

Meteor rock

Meteoroid, a small sand to boulder-sized particle of debris in the Solar system.

Nagareboshi

Nagareboshi is Japanese for shooting star.


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Comet Encke

In their 1982 book Cosmic Serpent (page 155) Victor Clube and Bill Napier reproduce an ancient Chinese catalogue of cometary shapes from the Mawangdui Silk Texts, which includes a swastika-shaped comet, and suggest that some of the comet drawings were related to the breakup of the progenitor of Encke and the Taurid meteoroid stream.

TransHab

TransHab's inflatable shell consisted of multiple layers of blanket insulation, protection from orbital and meteoroid debris, an optimized restraint layer and a redundant bladder with a protective layer.


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