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The Chelyabinsk airburst, caused when a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over a Russian city in February 2013, rattled many astronomers, space agencies and governments, and partly in response to this dramatic event, NASA reactivated NEOWISE in September 2013.
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Scientists now believe this was due to a meteor airburst.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
But previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Feb. 2025
Scientists now believe this was due to a meteor airburst.
—Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
But previous experience from WWII shows just how effective this type of airburst weapon is.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Tall el-Hammam may have been destroyed by a massive cosmic airburst and may have been the biblical Sodom.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airburst
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Although not technically downtown — downtown's western boundary generally is defined as North Lamar Boulevard — the Belvedere comes amid a downtown building boom that has seen scores of new towers, many of them residential high-rises, transform the skyline during the past couple of decades.—
Shonda Novak,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The sport witnessed a big boom in the late 1990s and early 2000s, offering drivers big paychecks.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
Noun
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That day came today as Punk shed his crutches to an even louder pop.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The spruce wood kit arrives unpainted, giving you the choice to keep it natural or add a pop of color.—
Rylee Johnston,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But why would stocks sell off based on Powell’s firing in the first place?—
Michael Foster,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Trump’s gloating response to Colbert’s firing was enough to convince many in the industry that CBS’s business decision was politically motivated.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 July 2025
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One is from the outer shell of helium, via fusion before the detonation dilutes the material.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2025
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Astronomers predicted that if a double detonation had occurred, the remnant of the supernova would contain two separate shells of calcium.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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“Airburst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airburst. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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