dark flight

English

Noun

dark flight (plural dark flights)

  1. (astronomy, meteorology, geology) The portion of the flight of a meteor, after its incandescent fireball phase, when the space rock has cooled down and slowed down, so that it is no longer glowing, but still in flight, and yet to crash onto the ground.
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