The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word METEOR
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More clues leading to the result METEOR
- Fighter once assembled eastern troops
- Unusually remote shooting star
- Recording equipment orbiting globe for space intruder
- Boundary stone, yellow lump of rock
- One dazzling but short-lived and strangely remote
- Disintegration of remote extraterrestrial rock
- Measuring device on both sides of old Comet
- Falling star to encounter gloomy fellow on the radio
- What’s remote, hurtling?
- Space traveller was introduced to The Queen, holding top of orb
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What does METEOR mean?
METEOR noun- A fast-moving streak of light in the night sky caused by the entry of extraterrestrial matter into the earth's atmosphere: A shooting star or falling star.
- Any atmospheric phenomenon. (Thus the derivation of meteorology.) These were sometimes classified as aerial or airy meteors (winds), aqueous or watery meteors (hydrometeors: clouds, rain, snow, hail, dew, frost), luminous meteors (rainbows and aurora), and igneous or fiery meteors (lightning and shooting stars).
- A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.
- A striking weapon resembling a track and field hammer consisting of a weight swung at the end of a cable or chain.
- Any short-lived source of wonderment.
- To move at great speed.