``Meteor streams'' do not exist.

Abstract

International audienceThe difference between a meteoroid stream and a meteor shower is well understood today: meteoroid stream evolving in the interplanetary space cause meteor showers when they enter an atmosphere. For this reason, the expression ``meteor stream'' is a non-sense: meteors are organised as showers and do not exist outside an atmosphere. Although the usage of ``meteor stream'' in the literature decreases since the early 2000s, the effort to correctly use meteor-related vocabulary in order to clarify the different phenomena is to be continued