fireball
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The strongest transverse acceleration consistently points outward and appears near the outer boundary of the fireball.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Footage from the scene shows a fireball at the refinery, with thick smoke billowing out across the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Crews on the ground will monitor the Artemis II capsule and send those test pilots precise speeds and coordinates to hit as they follow the fireball in the sky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Moments later, a bright yellow fireball erupts on the sports hall.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
The program for Redwing included the first airborne drop of a thermonuclear device, which created an enormous fireball four miles in diameter when it detonated fifteen thousand feet over Bikini.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
A ban on "hulla parties" -- groups deployed to drive elephants away using "fireballs" and burning stakes -- is required, it said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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
As it blazed through Earth's atmosphere, the rocket vaporised into fireballs over Ireland, England, and Germany before it finally struck Earth.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
Video images of the fireballs circled the globe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
POP POP POP go the fireballs from the canister.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
