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Why the phrase "meteoric rise"?

Asked by phoenyx (7401points) May 15th, 2008

Meteors don’t rise. They are meteoroids that have enter the earth’s atmosphere and will soon get burned up as they come crashing to the ground. It seems like an oxymoron.

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