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Bolide from the French astronomy book Le Ciel; Notions 'Elémentaires d'Astronomie Physique (1877). The word bolide (/ ˈ b oʊ l aɪ d /; from Italian via Latin, from Ancient Greek βολίς (bolís) 'missile' [2] [3]) may refer to somewhat different phenomena depending on the context in which the word appears, and readers may need to make inferences to determine which meaning is intended in ...
Frederic Edwin Church, The Meteor of 1860. In 2010, it was determined to be an Earth-grazing meteor procession. [1] An Earth-grazing fireball (or Earth grazer) [2] is a fireball, a very bright meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and leaves again. Some fragments may impact Earth as meteorites, if
A bolide: a very bright meteor of an apparent magnitude of −14 or brighter. Fireball over the Bering Sea viewed from space (18 December 2018). The following is a list of bolides and fireballs seen on Earth in recent times.
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A luminous meteor was observed and an object seen to fall with a loud roar in May 1826. Only 46 grams (1.6 oz) are preserved in collections. Zaisho, Japan. 330 g were found on February 1, 1898, [11] after the appearance of a fireball. Marjalahti, Karelia, Russia. After the appearance of a bright meteor and detonations, a large mass was seen to ...
The Northern Taurid meteor shower will peak on Sunday night, with an increased chance of extra-bright meteors in the sky.
The most powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size [1] [2]: p. 178 exploded at an altitude of 5–10 km (16,000–33,000 ft) over a sparsely populated forest in Siberia.
2013 Russian meteor event – a 17-metre diameter, 10 000 ton [105] asteroid hit the atmosphere above Chelyabinsk, Russia at 18 km/s around 09:20 local time (03:20 UTC) 15 February 2013, producing a very bright fireball [106] in the morning sky. A number of small meteorite fragments have since been found nearby.