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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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shower
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On some nights one can see so many of these popularly-called shooting stars that we speak of a star or meteor shower .
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These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history, surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.
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You might have thought that no meteor shower , no space dist had ever touched that brilliance.
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It is startling but true that no meteorite fall has ever been associated with a meteor shower .
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Bundle up for the annual Geminid meteor shower , peaking around midnight Dec. 13.
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No cometary meteor shower has ever produced a meteorite fall.
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Interestingly, three regular meteor showers have orbits connected with three asteroids whose orbits bring them very close to Earth.
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The random background meteors that do not belong to discrete meteor showers are called sporadic meteors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From time to time Earth suffers bombardment from meteors and comets, and meteoritic impact has been a major planet-shaper and climate-modeller.
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Peak rates are typically 50 to more than 100 meteors per hour.
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The meteors are debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle, which last appeared in 1992.
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The comets, meteors and other bodies were regarded as waste material.
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The density of the atmosphere traversed by the meteor increases very rapidly as it nears the ground.
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The orbits of many other meteor swarms have been determined.
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The special includes vivid illustrations of the impact meteors have had in the past and what could happen in the future.
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These few lucky observers had witnessed the most spectacular meteor shower in recorded history, surpassing even the 1833 Leonids.