“Expect 40 to 60 meteors per hour, some of them bright.”
Bill Cooke
“There are three minor meteor showers going on, one known for slow moving but very bright fireballs.”
Jack Horkheimer
“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.”
Tycho Brahe
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Jack London
“It was like a meteor.”
John Hill
“It would have taken only a second or two for a meteor that's 20 kilometers in diameter to pass through the ocean and impact the rock beneath.”
Donald Lowe
“The imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, / Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.”
John Milton
