Was it a shooting star? Meteor shower? Comet? Or aliens?

是流星吗？流星雨？彗星？还是外星人？

There were streaks of gray in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he walked with a slight limp.

他茶褐色的头发和浓密的眉毛里夹杂着缕缕灰色，金丝边眼镜后面是一双锐的黄眼睛，尽管腿有点瘸，但走起路来却有一种大步流星的潇洒。

Meteoroids become meteors when they enter our atmosphere and meteorites when they hit the ground.

流星进入地球大气层时会变成流星，撞击地面时变成陨。

Yeah, we drove over the mountain see the comets.

我们开车去山顶看流星。

Others speculated it was a meteor or aliens.

其他人则猜测它是一颗流星或者外星人。

Viewers as far apart as Kent, Yorkshire, and Dundee have been phoning in to tell me that instead of the rain I promised yesterday, they've had a downpour of shooting stars!

全国各地，远至肯郡、约克郡、丹地等地的目击者都纷纷打来电话告诉我，我昨天预报有雨，结果下的不是雨，而是流星！

There is also a class of object called meteoroids.

还有一样东西称为“meteoroids（流星体）”。

A meteor that scientists say was probably a few meters across.

科学家说这颗流星的直径可能只有几米。

The snow crackled under foot, as if one had new boots on; and one falling star after the other was seen in the sky.

脚下的雪发出咯吱咯吱的声音，好像人们穿上新靴子踩在上面。天上的流星一个接着一个从上空划过。

Imagine if we had spent hundreds of billions per year subsidizing giant meteors.

这就好比恐龙每年给巨大的流星补贴成百上千亿的路费来撞地球。

He threw his cloak over his head and strode out of the clearing.

他用斗篷罩住脑袋，大步流星地走出了空地。

Just like meteoroids are relatively small rocks that are zipping around in space, asteroids are bigger ones and two of those have been in the news recently.

就像流星体是在太空中快速移动的相对较小的岩一样，小行星是较大的岩，其中两颗最近出现在了新闻里。

The Earth passes through that debris in April and the shooting stars that are really Thatcher's meteors burn up in our atmosphere.

地球在四的时候穿过那些陨碎片，也就是在我们大气层中燃烧的流星实际上是Thatcher彗星带来的。

The object in question weighed about 2kg - too small to reach Earth's surface.

该流星重约2公斤，质量太小，无法到达地球表面。

And I'm like, a shooting star is basically what they told me.

我就说，就像流星一样，他们基本上是这样告诉我的。

For observers on Earth who happen to catch it at the right time it looked like this, a series of shooting stars.

对于地球上在适宜的时间观测到流星雨的人来说，它看上去是这个样子的，能看到许多流星。

Meteors, asteroids, and comets struck my surface for a billion years.

从十亿年前开始，流星、小行星和彗星不断撞击我。

What would happen if a giant meteor came crashing down to Earth?

如果一颗巨大的流星坠落地球会发生什么呢？

These lights in the sky are called meteors.

天空中的这些光被称为流星。

And when it's deorbited, it basically acts in the same way that a meteoroid does.

当它们脱离轨道时，行为基本上与流星相同。