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Bolide

noun
1.
An especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding).  Synonym: fireball.






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"Bolide" Quotes from Famous Books



... a meteor. It was just such a phenomenon as we know of on the Earth. I felt certain that it was a bolide from space, one of those fiery visitors of stone and iron that collide occasionally with our Earth, and that somewhere before us, in the country we were ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... time, the situation changed. At that time Alaska reported an unscheduled celestial object of considerable size, high out of atmosphere and moving with surprising slowness for a body in space. Its course was parabolic and it would probably land somewhere in South Dakota. It might be a bolide—a large, slow-moving meteorite. It wasn't likely, but the entire report ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... not know what a bolide was. She recalled that some one had said to her that at the museum were bones carved by primitive men, and plaques of ivory on which were engraved pictures of animals, which were long ago extinct. She asked whether that were true. Lagrange ceased to smile. He replied indifferently ...
— The Red Lily, Complete • Anatole France



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