Fireball is often used in reference to a large explosion or burst of fire. Fireball can also refer to: In science: · A bolide, a meteor brighter than Venus (?apparent magnitude -5). · Glowworm , the trails left by bolide fireballs and sometimes followed by a loud noise · In a nuclear explosion, the volume of air around the bomb that is heated to incandescence; see also Mike Fireball · A "primordial fireball," a term coined by P.J.E. Peebles to describe the universe during the first 300,000 years after the Big Bang · The hot volume that is created when large particles are collided together at an energy that is high enough to create quark-gluon plasma in Quantum chromodynamics. In games: · Fireball , a pinball machine released by Bally in 1972 · An archetypal magic effect in fantasy role-playing games, such as