bolide

Example Sentences

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Mr Kacerek said: "Daytime fireballs are extremely rare. It has to be a very large bolide class, to be visible during day."

From BBC

The odds of Akatsuki seeing a bolide, based on what we know about how often they hit planets, however, is exceedingly unlikely.

From National Geographic

Wagner eventually sent the photo into NASA, where a scientist confirmed that the object he had spotted was a bolide meteor.

From Fox News

Fries is optimistic, partly because the space rock that exploded in a fireball and sonic boom — a phenomenon called a bolide — was huge.

From Seattle Times

The card said that it was a remnant of the Thanksgiving Day “bolide” from 2002.

From The Verge