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Re: Bolide size versus recovered ...
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- Subject: Re: Bolide size versus recovered ...
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:51:52 GMT
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>It would be useful to get rid of this obsolete term
> "bolide" as it has no real
> scientific meaning.
The term bolide was used quite extensively within the scientific
community during the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts into Jupiter
in 1994. It is far from being obsolete.
Ron Baalke