Meteors
A meteoroid () is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to one-meter-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are collision impact debris ejected from bodies such as the Moon or Mars.When a meteoroid, comet, or asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere at a speed typically in excess of 20 km/s (72,000 km/h; 45,000 mph), aerodynamic heating of that object produces a streak of light, both from the glowing object and the …
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UAP: University of Alberta Press · 27 March 2023 English
Feminist experimental lyric poetry that embodies the passage of a damaged world across generations.
northern nightscape shower’s radiant ancestor meteors register a small planet Parallel tracks appear …
RI: Rideau Institute · 11 February 2023 English
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 December 2022 English
a keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a childWith vivid imagery …
planets orbiting the sun asteroids and meteors diamonds and coal mines fossils …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 12 December 2022 English
“Phantom places resonant with mysterious meaning, dreamy hauntings from half-remembered lives, revenant landscapes fragmented in the prism of memory; the living, the dead; rivers as the veins of life and …
summer meteor showers, the shimmer of light as the meteors entered the earth’s upper atmosphere and burned …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2022 English
Here we stand between one breath / and death asking to be light.What happens when someone we love dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss.In luminous poems that …
Certainly you can feel them, moving like slow meteors burning with joy. They lean forward as if against …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2022 English
we climb down the manhole / where history waits, and we can read / its layers or at least imagine themFrom a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a poet …
vines crawling page after page full of rhyme and meteors here and there falling from stars, characters …
AUP: Athabasca University Press · 26 October 2022 English
Born to a French-Canadian mother and Algerian father, Ouanessa Younsi is a bold and unique voice in modern Francophone poetry. In this intensely personal recitation on identity and ethnicity, Younsi …
I fell silent, watched the inferno, watched meteors and titans of hatred. I fell asleep, sure I was …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 27 June 2022 English
of pressing space security issues, the major actors or stakeholders to take into account in As a result, firms will gain experience in large-scale an assessment of space security, and …
links are characterized natural objects such as meteors, meteor showers by direct and indirect connections …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 25 September 2021 English
“We began to dig ourselves deeper than we dreamedwhen we began to see metal as other than medicine,our bodies, more than mineral.”From an emerging environmental voice comes an evocative, multilayered …
the Athabasca Basin were struck by a series of meteors. As if the ore bodies were foreign, in need of …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 1 September 2020 English
The third issue of a digital journal created to alleviate the malaise of social distancing with exceptional writing and artwork. The Quarantine Review celebrates literature and art, connecting readers through …
rocks, bits of coal from your garden, call them meteors, your shattered metacarpals. This astronaut beside …
