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Metelis (Kom el-Ahmer)
Metelis, also known as Kom el-Ahmer, is an archaeological site in Egypt's western Nile Delta, identified with the ancient capital of the Metelite nome, occupied from the 6th century BC to the 11th century AD.
Metelitsa
Метелица (Metelitsa): name shared by the famous 1990s Moscow casino complex on Novy Arbat, Belarusian casinos in Brest and Mogilev, and a UniqueGame N.V. online casino under an Anjouan license.
Metelitsa Dorsa
Metelitsa Dorsa, a 1300 km ridge system (dorsum) on Venus at 16°N 31°E, IAU-named in 1997 for an East Slavic snowstorm deity; partly bounds the Eastern Eistla mantle plume region.
Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis (Greek μετεμψύχωσις), or transmigration of souls, is the doctrine that a soul passes at death into another body, human or animal. Associated with Pythagoras, Plato, Orphism, and Kabbalah's gilgul; distinct from rebirth and the nineteenth-century term reincarnation.
Metenkefalin
Metenkefalin (Met-enkephalin, [Met5]-enkephalin, opioid growth factor) is the endogenous pentapeptide Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met, discovered in pig brain in 1975 by Hughes and Kosterlitz; a delta-opioid receptor agonist, not FDA-approved.
Météo-France
Météo-France is the French national meteorological service, a public establishment created in 1993 and headquartered in Toulouse, which issues forecasts and warnings for France and its overseas territories.
MétéoMédia
MétéoMédia is a Canadian French-language weather information specialty channel and website owned by Pelmorex Corp., which also runs The Weather Network; it launched in 1988.
Meteor
A meteor, called a falling star or shooting star, is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid enters a planetary atmosphere at high speed and usually vaporizes.
Meteor (hydrofoil)
The Meteor (Метеор) is a Soviet river passenger hydrofoil designed by Rostislav Alekseyev, built from 1961 into the 1990s, that carried over 100 passengers at 65 km/h.
Meteor (missile)
Meteor is a European long-range, radar-guided air-to-air missile developed by MBDA for six nations including the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden, entering service with Sweden in 2016.
Meteor Crater
Meteor Crater, or Barringer Crater, in northern Arizona is a 1.2 km-wide, 180 m-deep impact crater formed about 50,000 years ago by a 30 m iron-nickel meteorite, the first impact crater recognized on Earth.
Meteor Garden (2001 TV series)
Meteor Garden (流星花園) is a 2001 Taiwanese idol drama produced by Angie Chai for CTS, adapted from Hana yori Dango, starring Barbie Hsu and F4; it set a 6.99 Taiwan ratings record and was banned in mainland China in 2002.
Meteor Garden (流星花园) (2018 TV series)
Meteor Garden (流星花园, 2018) is a 48-episode mainland Chinese remake of the 2001 Taiwanese idol drama, adapted from Yoko Kamio's manga Hana Yori Dango. Produced by Angie Chai, starring Shen Yue and Wang Hedi, it aired on Hunan TV and Netflix and scored about 3 on Douban versus 8.2 for the original.
Meteor hammer (流星锤)
The meteor hammer (流星锤), also called the flying hammer, is a Chinese flexible weapon with one or two metal hammer heads on a long rope, thrown and pulled back.
Meteor Lake
Meteor Lake, the code name for Intel's first Core Ultra mobile processors, launched in December 2023 as a tiled chip built from four chiplets joined by Foveros 3D packaging.
Meteor Rupēs
Meteor Rupes (Meteor Rupēs) is a 990-km lobate scarp in Mercury's southern hemisphere, IAU-approved in 2018 and named for the German research ship Meteor, expedition of 1925-1927.
Meteor shower
A meteor shower, also called a meteor swarm or star shower, is a recurring increase in meteors seen when Earth passes through dust streams shed mainly by comets.
Meteor-M
Meteor-M (Метеор-М) is a series of Russian polar-orbiting weather and remote-sensing satellites built by VNIIEM for Roscosmos and Roshydromet, launched since 2009 from Baikonur and Vostochny to provide cloud imaging, sea-ice monitoring, and search and rescue.
Meteora (album)
Meteora is Linkin Park's second studio album, released March 25, 2003 on Warner Bros. Produced with Don Gilmore, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with over 810,000 copies, spawned "Numb" and "Somewhere I Belong", and has sold over 8 million US copies.
Meteora (Μετέωρα)
Meteora (Μετέωρα), Greek Orthodox monastery complex on sandstone pinnacles over 400 m high near Kalambaka, Thessaly; settled by hermits from the 11th century, 24 monasteries by 1500, six active, UNESCO mixed World Heritage site since 1988.
Meteora Pyli UNESCO Global Geopark
Meteora Pyli UNESCO Global Geopark (Γεωπάρκο Μετεώρων - Πύλης), designated 2024, is a 2,409.5 km2 geopark in western Thessaly, Greece, spanning Meteora and Pyli municipalities, famed for 300-meter sandstone columns topped by Byzantine monasteries.
Meteorite
A meteorite, also called an aerolite, is a natural solid object from space that survives its fiery passage through an atmosphere. Most come from asteroids, with a few from the Moon and Mars.
Meteorite inscription incident of Dong Commandery
The Meteorite inscription incident of Dong Commandery (东郡陨石刻字) was a Qin dynasty event in which a meteorite fell in Dong Commandery bearing an inscription foretelling Qin Shihuang's death.
Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a small natural solid object moving through interplanetary space, typically a fragment of a comet or asteroid, defined by the IAU as 30 micrometers to 1 meter.
Meteoroid stream
A meteoroid stream is a population of dust to pebble-sized particles sharing similar orbits because they were released from the same parent body, usually a comet.
Meteorological reanalysis
Meteorological reanalysis is a method that reprocesses historical weather observations through a fixed, unchanging numerical weather prediction system, yielding consistent gridded estimates of past atmospheric states.
Meteorological Service of Canada
The Meteorological Service of Canada, founded in 1871, is Canada's federal agency for weather forecasts, warnings, and climate information, operating within Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Meteorologist
A meteorologist, also known as a weather forecaster, is a physical scientist who observes, studies, or forecasts the weather, typically holding a degree in meteorology or a related physical science.
Meteorology
Meteorology is the science of the Earth's atmosphere and its physical processes; modern weather forecasting rests on numerical weather prediction, a global observing system, and machine-learning models.
Meteosat
Meteosat is a series of European geostationary meteorological satellites, first launched in 1977, that provides continuous full-disc imagery of Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans for weather forecasting and climate monitoring.