For example, the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center of the USGS uses bolide as a generic term that describes any large crater-forming impacting body of which its composition (for example, whether it is a rocky or metallic asteroid, or an icy comet) is unknown.
The effector is the latest version of the Saab Bofors Dynamics RBS 70 surface-to-air missile, called Bolide.
Verschuur claims that Otarehua is a placename near Tapanui and that it refers to the Māori name for Antares, and that this may be an indication that the bolide impact happened in the June Taurid meteor stream.