bolide

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noun

1

An extremely bright meteor.

2

Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth.

The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.

3

A fireball.

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noun — an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)

fireball

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The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Si

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