sporadic meteor

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sporadic meteor [spə′rad·ik ′mēd·ē·ər]

(astronomy)

A meteor which is not associated with one of the regularly recurring meteor showers or streams.

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No references found			Event 216--2008 May 10--Alldays, Limpopo Observed by Tim Cooper at 02h55, sporadic meteor during watch on the eta Aquarids. Southern African Fireball Observations 2007/8: T P Cooper (Director, ... by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa Overall, Leonids were somewhat brighter than the contemporaneous sporadic background: some caution is required in interpreting the data given the comparatively low numbers of sporadic meteors ([N. The Leonid meteor shower in 2002 by Bone, N.M. / Journal of the British Astronomical Association			spoo spoof spoofing spooge spook spool spool file spool-type roller conveyor spooler spooling SpoolView spoolwork spoon spoon bit spoon nail Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Spoonbill Spooner, John Coit Spooner, Rev. W. A. spoonerism spoor Sporades Sporadic sporadic E layer sporadic fault sporadic meteor sporadic reflections sporadic simple group sporangiolum sporangiophore sporangiospore Sporangium Spore Spore and Pollen Analysis spore mother cell spore stain Spore, Bacterial Sporebearing Plant Spörer minimum Spörer's law Sporidium sporinite Spornoe sporoblast Sporobolomycetaceae Sporobolomycetales Sporocarp Sporocyst sporocyte Sporogenesis Sporogonium			sporadic Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis Sporadic cholera Sporadic Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease sporadic disease sporadic disease sporadic disease sporadic disease Sporadic E sporadic E layer Sporadic Fatal Infectious Mononucleosis sporadic fatal insomnia sporadic fault sporadic goitrous cretinism sporadic goitrous cretinism sporadic goitrous cretinism Sporadic group Sporadic hemiplegic migraine Sporadic hemiplegic migraine Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis sporadic leukosis sporadic lymphangitis sporadic lymphangitis sporadic lymphangitis Sporadic MCT sporadic meteor Sporadic Motor Neuron Disease Sporadic permafrost Sporadic permafrost Sporadic permafrost zone Sporadic permafrost zone Sporadic Porphyria Cutanea Tarda Sporadic Primary Pulmonary Hypertension sporadic reflections Sporadic simple group Sporadic Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy Sporadic Testicular Agenesis Syndrome Sporadic Ulcerating and Mutilating Acropathy sporadical sporadical sporadical sporadical sporadically sporadically sporadically sporadically sporadicalness sporadicalness sporadicalness sporadicalness Sporan Sporange Sporange Sporange sporangia sporangia

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