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Loading contentExceptionally bright meteors and the bolides that detonate in the atmosphere.
A powerful bolide that exploded over the Bering Sea in December 2018 with roughly ten times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb — the largest airburst since Chelyabinsk, unnoticed at the time because it occurred over the remote ocean.
A brilliant green fireball that crossed the eastern United States in October 1992, filmed by at least 16 people, before a fragment struck a parked car in Peekskill, New York — one of the best-documented fireball-to-meteorite events.