bolide

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They relied on the "pancake model," a widely used semi-analytic approach that describes how a bolide fragments while passing through an atmosphere.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

The meteor - sometimes called a bolide for its particularly intense brightness - could be seen by much of southern Norway.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2022

Still, with all this evidence, one large piece remained missing: the crater where the bolide impact.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Astrophysicists say it was a bolide, or a meteor that explodes in the air.

From Newsweek • Feb. 15, 2013

Now I know what that bolide of ours is!

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward