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

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

The California bolide, like its African predecessor, made a well-documented entry—three Doppler radar stations picked up the track of the fireball, pointing the way to meteorite fragments on the ground.

From Scientific American • Dec. 20, 2012

This was the precise moment at which the travellers would have landed had not that unlucky bolide drawn them off the track.

From All Around the Moon by Roth, Edward