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Caption: Figure 2.
Idealized diagram, not drawn to scale and intended only as a rough conceptual representation, illustrates how a bolide’s fragmentation behavior affects the resulting light curve. The left column shows four conceptual light curves, from a single-peaked airburst to continuous multipoint fragmentation, while the right panels depict how different geometry scenarios might look for steep vs. shallow entries.
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