bolide
Example Sentences
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It was also a massive learning experience for scientists, the largest atmospheric impact since the Tunguska bolide in 1908.
From Scientific American • Feb. 15, 2023
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
A bolide had fallen into the Catanian sea—he took me to the port and showed me precisely where.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Jones, Henry Festing
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
