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- From: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
- Subject: Re: bolide sighting
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.140511.18508@uwm.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:05:11 GMT
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- >>> Pardon my ignorance, but what is a "bolide"?
- >>
- >> A bolide is a fireball, i.e. a very bright meteor with a trail.
- >> I guess it has the same root as "bolometer". "Bolide" isn't in
- >> the Webster's Collegiate dictionaries ( I looked in the seventh
- >> and ninth editions. ) It is in the glossary of Petersen's Field
- >> Guide to the Stars and Planets.
- >>
- >
- I haven't looked it up, but I thought the dsitinctino between a fireball
- (a very bright meteor) and a bolide is that a bolide exploded --
- or fragmented.
-
- Greg
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