2014 Ontario fireball, the Glossary
- ️Wed Jan 08 2014
On 4 May 2014 around 4:17pm (EDT) a daylight bolide occurred near Ontario, resulting in a meteor air burst.[1]
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13 relations: Bolide, Brighton, Ontario, Eastern Time Zone, Impact event, Meteor air burst, Meteorite, Meteoroid, Ontario, Peterborough, Ontario, Strewn field, TNT equivalent, Weather radar, Winnipeg Free Press.
- 2014 in Ontario
- 21st-century astronomical events
- Explosions in 2014
- May 2014 events in Canada
- Meteoroid stubs
- Meteoroids
Bolide
A bolide is normally taken to mean an exceptionally bright meteor, but the term is subject to more than one definition, according to context. 2014 Ontario fireball and bolide are meteoroids.
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Brighton, Ontario
Brighton is a town in Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada, approximately east of Toronto and west of Kingston.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Impact event
An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects.
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Meteor air burst
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere.
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Meteorite
A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
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Meteoroid
A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. 2014 Ontario fireball and meteoroid are meteoroids.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
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Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada, about 125 kilometres (78 miles) northeast of Toronto.
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Strewn field
A strewn field is the area where meteorites from a single fall are dispersed.
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TNT equivalent
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.
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Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation.
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Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Free Press (or WFP; founded as the Manitoba Free Press) is a daily (excluding Sunday) broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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See also
2014 in Ontario
- 10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- 2014 Ontario general election
- 2014 Ontario municipal elections
- 2014 Racquetball World Championships
- 41st Parliament of Ontario
- Grassy Narrows First Nation v Ontario (Natural Resources)
- Results of the 2014 Ontario general election by riding
21st-century astronomical events
- 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event
- 2009 Sulawesi superbolide
- 2012 United Kingdom meteoroid
- 2012 Venus–Jupiter–Mercury conjunction
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- 2015 Kerala meteoroid
- 2015 Thailand bolide
- 2017 China bolide
- 2020 China bolide
- Chelyabinsk meteorite
- Dingle Dell meteorite
- Kamchatka meteor
- Novato meteorite
- Sutter's Mill meteorite
Explosions in 2014
- 2014 East Harlem gas explosion
- 2014 GAIL pipeline explosion
- 2014 Gorni Lom explosions
- 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions
- 2014 Kunshan explosion
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- 2014 Selantik coal mine explosion
- Killing of Rémi Fraisse
- Managua event
- Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant explosion
- Soma mine disaster
May 2014 events in Canada
- 2014 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- Global Wars (2014)
Meteoroid stubs
- 2009 Sulawesi superbolide
- 2012 United Kingdom meteoroid
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- Alpha Centaurids
- Aquariids
- Beta Taurids
- Coma Berenicids
- Delta Aurigids
- Delta Cancrids
- Draconids
- Eta Carinids
- Helion (meteoroid)
- June Bootids
- Kappa Cygnids
- Leonis Minorids
- Meteor procession
- Monocerotids
- Omicron Centaurids
- Pegasids
- Pi Puppids
- Population index
- Sigma Hydrids
- Theta Centaurids
- Zeta Perseids
Meteoroids
- 1783 Great Meteor
- 1860 Great Meteor
- 1913 Great Meteor Procession
- 1930 Curuçá River event
- 1972 Great Daylight Fireball
- 2012 United Kingdom meteoroid
- 2014 Ontario fireball
- 2015 Thailand bolide
- 2017 China bolide
- Antimatter comet
- Bolide
- CNEOS 2014-01-08
- Earth-grazing fireball
- Earth-grazing fireballs
- Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990
- Glass with embedded metal and sulfides
- Glowworm (astronomy)
- Helion (meteoroid)
- Kamchatka meteor
- List of bolides
- List of bolides in 2017
- Meteor burst communications
- Meteor procession
- Meteor shower
- Meteor showers
- Meteorites
- Meteoritics
- Meteoroid
- Micrometeorite
- Micrometeoroid
- Zenithal hourly rate
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ontario_fireball
Also known as Ontario fireball 2014.