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bolide

NOUN
  1. an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding)

How To Use bolide In A Sentence

  • The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
  • Keep your eyes moving across the sky and stay alert; brilliant fireballs or bolides (exploding meteors) are possible.
  • Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
  • It has even been speculated that if a bolide had not seen out the dinosaurs, then they would have eventually evolved into a human-grade intelligent species.
  • There was no sound or trail as with a meteor or bolides.
  • There is a considerable amount of evidence that a bolide collision with Earth triggered the end of the dinosaur era 65 million years ago.
  • Atmospheric entry of the bolide A cosmic object entering the atmosphere loses its kinetic energy through deceleration and ablation.
  • Ever since the proposal that the mass extinction resulted from a bolide impact, the nature of mass extinctions has been the subject of much debate.
  • That pattern suggests that an object may have struck from the northwest - a path that would have taken the blazing bolide over southeastern Australia, where aboriginal legends mention just such a fireball.
  • It has been studied comprehensively by McGhee, who argued cogently that bolide impact and presumed climate change were important controls on the pattern of extinction.
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