All meteorite synonyms

noun meteorite

• meteor — Astronomy. a meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere. a transient fiery streak in the sky produced by a meteoroid passing through the earth's atmosphere; a shooting star or bolide.
• falling star — an incandescent meteor; a shooting star.
• bolide — a large exceptionally bright meteor that often explodes
• comet — A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun.
• fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
• meteoroid — any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor.