"They both thought it was a meteor exploding in the atmosphere — a rather bright one called a bolide." Dominick shared two ...

A bolide, according to the American Meteor Society, is a special type of fireball that explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation. While it's all speculation ...

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 ...

“The meteor was clearly visible on webcams ... scouring the nearby landscape for remaining fragments of the bolide that may have survived. The search yielded rocky fruit, with multiple chunks ...