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Comet vs Bolide - What's the difference?

comet | bolide |

As nouns the difference between comet and bolide

is that comet is (astronomy) a celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the sun while bolide is an extremely bright meteor.

comet

English

(wikipedia comet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (astronomy) A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
  • A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
  • Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * cometary * cometoid * exocomet

    Related terms

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    bolide

    English

    (wikipedia bolide)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An extremely bright meteor
  • Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth
  • A fireball

    • Derived terms

    * superbolide

    Quotations

    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.
    —Alan Harris

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