"If one looks at the general form, this phenomenon is called a bolide. A meteor has a weakly visible brightness, like Jupiter or Saturn. And if <…> it is as bright as Venus or even brighter ...
Only about five thousand are large enough to be really visible (at this point called a "fireball") and then break up and explode to earn the name "bolide." The bolide in the video left an ...
“That’s a meteor,” Martin said. “It’s a classic meteor. The type that would be known as a bolide or a fireball.” “Most of these are only the size of a softball to maybe a beachball ...
the fireball was brighter than the moon!” In the days that followed, scientists and enthusiasts hit the ground, scouring the nearby landscape for remaining fragments of the bolide that may have ...