- meteor, shooting star - a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
--1 is a kind of light, visible light, visible radiation
--1 is a part of meteor shower, meteor stream
--1 has particulars: bolide, fireball - meteoroid, meteor - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere
--2 is a kind of extraterrestrial object, estraterrestrial body
--2 has particulars: meteorite; meteor swarm