Meteors — those bright streaks of light that flare against the dark sky and occasionally deposit a new rock on our planet — have long fascinated us.
Meteor has been and remains a popular product name. Newspapers, mobile communications businesses, graphic arts firms, advertising businesses, a games company, a make of guitar and banjo, a portable stove, phonograph needles (the younger set can just look that up), tabletop patio gas heaters, tennis shoes, weather radar systems, several kinds of aircraft including a Nazi rocket plane, a filtration system, and, of course, various automobiles have carried the name Meteor. This surely is the tip of the iceberg in things named after the meteor.