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What is a bolide?

What is a bolide? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An extremely bright meteor
  2. Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth
  3. A fireball
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The impact scenario is based upon the occurrence of considerable widespread evidence of a large bolide striking the Earth.
There is a considerable amount of evidence that a bolide collision with Earth triggered the end of the dinosaur era 65 million years ago.
He'd predicted to the minute, and almost to the mile, the landing of the bolide of the night before.
It was interpreted as a meteoroidal bolide followed by probable meteorite fall.
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.
This discovery has been interpreted as the consequence of a bolide impact and has assumed considerable significance in the context of the ongoing debate.

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