What is "meteor showers"

Usage examples of "meteor showers".

The bronze Laocon wrestled with bronze snakes in the flickering illumination of the predawn meteor showers.

What were the odds that cometfall might indeed amount to nothing more than a few late-night meteor showers?

For the answer depended on so many factors that three generations of statisticians had done little but lay down rules so vague that the insurance companies still shivered with apprehension when the great meteor showers went sweeping like a gale through the orbits of the inner worlds.

It left swarms of debris which we see in annual, regular meteor showers.

The moon that had served as a garrison for the fighter ships had exploded into fragmented rubble that was raining down in spectacular meteor showers on the planet Kessel.

I thought of Grandam's recitation of that epic poem -- remembered the nights watching the sheep in the north hills, our battery-driven caravans pulled in a protective circle for the night, the low cooking fires doing little to dim the glory of the constellations or meteor showers above, remembered Grandam's slow, measured tones until she finished each stanza and waited for me to recite the lines back to her, remembered my own impatience at the process -- I would much rather have been sitting by lantern reading a book -- and smiled to think that this evening I would be dining with the author of those lines.

I thought of Grandam's recitation of that epic poem-remembered the nights watching the sheep in the north hills, our battery-driven caravans pulled in a protective circle for the night, the low cooking fires doing little to dim the glory of the constellations or meteor showers above, remembered Grandam's slow, measured tones until she finished each stanza and waited for me to recite the lines back to her, remembered my own impatience at the process-I would much rather have been sitting by lantern reading a book-and smiled to think that this evening I would be dining with the author of those lines.

The Tunguska Event seems to have been caused by a chunk of Comet Encke, a piece substantially larger than the tiny fragments that cause those glittering, harmless meteor showers.

We think of meteors as harmless and beautiful, especially when they come in large groups and provide spectacular displays such as the Leonid and Perseid meteor showers.