Sorry, it's an amateur astronomy magazine. The readers would generally know. A bolide is a large meteor, in this case a 10 foot rock. Bolides leave prominent trails across the sky and sometimes cause sonic booms. Meteorites from bolides may survive to reach the earth.
The bolide is the fireball itself, not the meteoroid.
Sorry, it's an amateur astronomy magazine. The readers would generally know
Ahh, I understand. Thanks. At first glance I thought it may have been a bowel obstruction.