bolides

In the past, the data on the fireballs, caused by small asteroids called bolides, was shared with the near-Earth object NEO science community, information deemed ideal for understanding the size of small NEOs and the hazard they pose.

FOXNews.com Leonard David 2010

The distinction between meteors and fireballs (formerly also called bolides) is merely one of convenience; a fireball is an unusually bright meteor.

infoplease - Daily Almanac 2009

Bacteria have also been shown to be able to survive virtually hard vacuum, which raises the interesting possibility that the earliest living cells originated in cracks in rocks in space, and arrived on Earth via infalling bolides.

Ancient Predator Revealed! 2009

Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.

Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything 2010

The whole point of human space flight is simply - planetary protection, internally from the follies of humanity, and externally from periodic icy bolides, whether they be comets of fragments blasted off of ice moons.

Why Some Say the Moon? - NASA Watch 2009

And as a result of those large cometary impacts along with the late bombardment of other bolides, it would have not only boiled any incipient oceans, but probably melted the crust back then as well.

Pity the poor inverts - The Panda's Thumb 2010

Also, a strong outburst of fireballs/bolides would surely be visible outside of Great Britain.

The Coma Berenicid Meteor Shower Peaks | Universe Today 2010

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.

Archive 2009-06-01 Mish 2009

A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.

Space Rocks are now Classified!? Mish 2009

As a result we probably shouldn't be too surprised to see an iincreased number of large bolides intercepting earth's orbit.

Asteroid Explosion over Indonesia | Universe Today 2009