How to Use airburst in a Sentence
airburst
noun
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Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.
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Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
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There are many smaller as-yet-undetected threats that exist, as the Chelyabinsk airburst showed so clearly in 2013.
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Scientific American,
13 Oct. 2021
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This type of cosmic event is called an airburst because a comet or meteorite explodes high in the Earth's atmosphere, instead of striking the surface.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2022
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The airburst took place over what is modern-day iraq but the actual meteorite has yet to be located and verified, Brennecka writes.
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Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
25 Jan. 2022
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For Kennett, further proof of the airburst was found by conducting many different kinds of analyses on soil and sediments from the critical layer.
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David Bressan,
Forbes,
21 Sep. 2021
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There were also airbursts, little bags of materials discreetly hung in the air that look like outdoor aerial fireworks when trigged.
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Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com,
al,
28 July 2019
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However, space rocks which were smaller than about 40 meters in diameter were more likely to explode in an airburst, posing a different kind of risk to the people below.
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Jasper Hamill,
Fox News,
28 June 2018
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The latest analysis of the bollide that burst over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February suggests that the risk from such airbursts — which occur when friction in our atmosphere heats up a meteor — may be greater than previously thought.
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Adam Mann,
WIRED,
7 Oct. 2013
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Past research has also suggested war or climate change may have cause the dissipation of Hopewell society, though the civilization may have eventually collapsed due to several causes, including a cosmic airburst.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2022
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Each airburst was as powerful as a nuclear blast, instantaneously vaporizing the soil and vegetation underneath and producing powerful shock waves that destroyed everything for tens of kilometers around.
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Javier Barbuzano / Eos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Apr. 2020
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