bolide
Example Sentences
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The meteor - sometimes called a bolide for its particularly intense brightness - could be seen by much of southern Norway.
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2022
The next city-threatening bolide could arrive at any time.
From Scientific American • Mar. 21, 2019
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
It would be noted from the beginning, however, that an impact equal to a hundred-ton explosion was a very small shock for the landing of a bolide.
From Operation Terror by Leinster, Murray
