Asteroid
Asteroid noun - Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter).
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Meteor
Meteor noun - (astronomy) any of the small solid extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.
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Synonyms for Meteor
Asteroid and meteor are semantically related in anything that progresses with spectacular speed topic. You can use "Asteroid" instead a noun "Meteor".
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It's perfectly possible for a meteor or asteroid to crash into the moon and it's happened before, as evidenced by the multiple craters on the other side.
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Besides the obvious Star Wars reference in the Death Egg, the Sonic the Hedgehog series features the Space Colony ARK, which makes its first appearance in Sonic Adventure 2 disguised as a very large asteroid/meteor, half of which disintegrates to show the Eggman-like facade.
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Meteor shows Earth's solar system's own asteroid belt being like this, with two large asteroids close enough that when one gets hit by a comet, a spacecraft orbiting the other gets destroyed by the debris.
Source: Asteroid Thicket
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