Bolide

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What Wikipedia says

A bolide is normally taken to mean an exceptionally bright meteor, but the term is subject to more than one definition, according to context. It may refer to any large crater-forming body, or to one that explodes in the atmosphere.

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Image: Boliden-Phasen.jpg: Thomas Grau derivative work: Basilicofresco (msg), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.