Meteor streams are groups of meteoroids originating typically from dust grains ejected from comets. These small dust grains are distributed along the parent comet's orbit concentrated close to the comet nucleus with fewer grains farther away from the nucleus. Every time the Earth passes through such a stream of dust particles (i.e. meteor stream), we experience what is known as a meteor shower.

Of particular interest to solar system dynamics is the association of a parent (source) body with a specific meteor stream. The following table lists known meteor streams in chronological order of peak activity. In addition to the name of the meteor stream and time of peak activity, the associated parent body (where known) is also shown.

This list of meteor streams and peak activity times are based on data from the International Meteor Organization while the parent body associations are from Gary Kronk's book, METEOR SHOWERS: A Description Catalog, Enslow Publishers, New Jersey, ISBN 0-89490-071-4.