Meteor (noun)
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A meteoroid that has entered the earth’s atmosphere.
First recorded in 1570–80; from New Latin meteōrum, from Greek metéōron “meteor, a thing in the air,” noun use of neuter of metéōros “raised in the air,”
Example sentences
“The meteor hit the earth and left a smoking crater.”
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