bolide

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Using the pancake model together with values derived from earlier studies, the researchers estimated how many bolides from Earth or Mars could have reached Venus' clouds.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

Larger incoming objects, such as boulder sized rocks that create especially bright flashes, are known as bolides or fireballs.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

The fireballs that explode in a bright terminal flash, often with visible fragmentation, are known as bolides, according to the American Meteor Society.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021

“In this case, the event was both out at sea and detected by a large number of stations, indicating an energetic explosion. This is what bolides look like in infrasound,” Brown says.

From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2019

The latter bodies have been chained down to regular orbits, followed far beyond those of the old planets, and brought into genealogical relations with these through the links of bolides and asteroids.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various