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fireball

noun as in grenade

noun as in shooting star

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There were lots of fireball sightings in 2022.

From BBC

The comet will look like a bright fireball with a long, extended tail, said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, KABC-TV reported.

As it crashed into Earth's atmosphere, it would have formed a fireball.

From BBC

“Imagine the asteroid was hitting Glasgow and you’re in Edinburgh, around 50 km away. The fireball would be about 24 times the size of the Sun in the sky - enough to set trees and plants on fire in Edinburgh,” Dr Nicholson says.

From BBC

“There was a loud explosion recorded by a number of individuals on campus and some individuals reported seeing a fireball,” Carvalho said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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