CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Meteor enters Earth's atmosphere
NASA said the fireball weighed as much as an elephant and released energy equal to about 230 tonnes of TNT.
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Dashcam Of New York Driver Captures Wild Video Of Meteor That Exploded Near Boston With The 'Equivalent To 230 Tons Of TNT'
Police departments and other authorities were rushing to figure out what caused a sonic boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Saturday afternoon after reports of an explosion came in from people throughout New England. The mystery was soon solved, in part thanks to a driver’s dashcam in Rome, New York, about 40 miles east of Syracuse. In it, a meteor flying across the eastern sky is visible. In fact, it was so visible th…
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Meteor enters Earth's atmosphere
(NBC, KYMA) - A meteor that reportedly entered the atmosphere Saturday was briefly caught on camera. The American Meteor Society said the object was about three-feet wide and entered the atmosphere north of Boston Saturday afternoon. NASA confirmed it was natural material and not a piece of space debris. When it happened just after 2 p.m. Eastern, there were reports of a loud explosion throughout New England. NASA said the meteor was traveling a…
As reported by NASA, the space rock was about 1.5 metres in diameter and a mass comparable to that of an elephant. Upon entering the atmosphere it was traveling at a speed of about 67,500 kilometres per hour.
A sonic bang heard all over the northeast of the United States last week was caused by a meteor, a small asteroid that exploded on its way through the Earth's atmosphere, confirmed NASA after...
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