[Repeal The 17th]

From the article:
“...it was a meteor bolide, meaning “brighter than the sun...”
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Wrong.

[BiggerTigger]

From the article:

“...it was a meteor bolide, meaning “brighter than the sun...”

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Wrong.

Good catch.

A bolide (French via Latin from the Greek βολίς bolis, "missile" or "to flash"[2][3]) is an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere. In astronomy, it refers to a fireball approximately as bright as the full moon, and it is generally considered a synonym of a fireball. In geology a bolide is a very large impactor.

One definition describes a bolide as a fireball reaching an apparent magnitude of −14 or brighter - more than twice as bright as the full moon.[4] Another definition describes a bolide as any generic large crater-forming impacting body whose composition (for example, whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet) is unknown.[5]

A superbolide is a bolide which reaches an apparent magnitude of −17 or brighter.[4][6] Recent examples of superbolides include the Sutter's Mill meteorite and the Chelyabinsk meteor.