Crossword clues for bolide
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bolide \Bo"lide\, n. [F. See Bolis.] A kind of meteor; a bolis. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 An extremely bright meteor 2 Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth 3 A fireball
WordNet
n. an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn: fireball]
Wikipedia
A bolide (French via Latin from the Greek βολίς bolís, "missile") is an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere. In astronomy, it refers to a fireball approximately as bright as the full moon, and it is generally considered a synonym of a fireball. In geology, a bolide is a very large impactor.
One definition describes a bolide as a fireball reaching an apparent magnitude of −14 or brighter – more than twice as bright as the full moon. Another definition describes a bolide as any generic large crater-forming impacting body whose composition (for example, whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet) is unknown.
A superbolide is a bolide which reaches an apparent magnitude of −17 or brighter. Recent examples of superbolides include the Sutter's Mill meteorite and the Chelyabinsk meteor.
Usage examples of "bolide".
He'd also argued effectively, so far, against plastering the continent's mountainous and more remote areas with bolides to eliminate the last of the Resistance.
The Jao didn't drop a bolide on Mount Everest because they really cared that much about the 'frivolity of mountain-climbing.
He could reduce the camps of the vermin to slag, with enough bolides, but that would render much of this continent and other parts of the planet uninhabitable.
The Governor's flotilla had suffered losses fighting the one surviving Ekhat ship, but enough ships had survived for Oppuk to order them to begin outfitting bolides for planetary bombardment.
There is a giant gas planet not far from the asteroid belt where the bolides were being assembled.
The bolide frameworks were nothing more than simple structures embedded in their rocky surface, designed to augment a ship's magnetic control impulses.
The bolides were selected for the purpose in the first place, of course, because of their high ferrous content.
With the vastly greater power available to their huge ships, the Harriers had simply stripped control of the bolides from Oppuk's own flotilla.
Perhaps he would have Oklahoma City destroyed by a bolide, to remove the vile memories.
Look, Paula, the nature of the impacting bolide determines the cratering profile.
For a bolide of a given yield strength you have a minimum radius below which you shouldn't find any craters.
My best guess now is that it was formed by a fragment, a calving of a much bigger bolide, which was probably water ice.
She grinned as she watched the bolide drop low, toward an ocean horizon barely illuminated by billions of distant asteroids.
John quickly added, "Fortunately our atmosphere protects us from the smaller bolides by making them explode high above us.
Feeling that the bolide situation was hopeless, she frowned at the wind, angered by the way it tangled up her difficult hair.