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bolide
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bolide: see fireball bolide (bō`līd) is a fireball that explodes in the air because of thermal stresses created when it passes through the earth's atmosphere.
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There also are nine special-effects devices that project animations of astronomical events such as supernovae, the paths of traveling asteriods, solar and lunar eclipses, eclipsing binary stars, and bolides, or exploding meteors, Shobbrook said.
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The arrangement suggested that bolides have been striking a limited set of targets, or "cratering nodes," which have remained the same for at least the last half billion years.
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