The smallest impactor that can penetrate the atmosphere deep enough to cause any damage on the ground is not much smaller than the "Tunguska" bolide that flattened a couple thousand square miles of Siberian forest in 1908.
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Bolide
//ˈboʊ.laɪd//
Synonyms for "bolide" (5 found)
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29 translations across 20 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- bòlid noun (extremely bright meteor)
Czech
1 entries- bolid noun (extremely bright meteor)
Dutch
2 entries- bolide noun (extremely bright meteor)
- vuurbol noun (extremely bright meteor)
Esperanto
1 entries- bolido noun (extremely bright meteor)
Finnish
2 entries- bolidi noun (extremely bright meteor)
- tulipallo noun (extremely bright meteor)
French
1 entries- bolide noun (extremely bright meteor)
Georgian
1 entries- ბოლიდი noun (extremely bright meteor)
German
2 entries- Bolide noun (extremely bright meteor)
- Feuerball noun (extremely bright meteor)
Ido
1 entries- bolido noun (extremely bright meteor)
Italian
2 entries- bolide noun (extremely bright meteor)
- meteora noun (any extraterrestrial body that collides with earth)
Japanese
1 entries- 火球 noun (extremely bright meteor)
Macedonian
1 entries- боли́д noun (extremely bright meteor)
Old Javanese
1 entries- handaru noun (extremely bright meteor)
Persian
2 entries- تیرشهاب noun (extremely bright meteor)
- شخانه noun (extremely bright meteor)
Polish
2 entries- bolid noun (extremely bright meteor)
- meteor noun (any extraterrestrial body that collides with earth)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਉਲਕਾ ਪਿੰਡ noun (extremely bright meteor)
Russian
2 entries- боли́д noun (extremely bright meteor)
- метеори́т noun (any extraterrestrial body that collides with earth)
Spanish
1 entries- bólido noun (extremely bright meteor)
Swedish
3 entries- bolid noun (extremely bright meteor)
- eldklot noun (extremely bright meteor)
- eldkula noun (extremely bright meteor)
Volapük
1 entries- filaglöp meteorik noun (extremely bright meteor)
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