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09 Mar 2021, 10:03 am
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09 Mar 2021, 6:24 pm
jimmy m wrote:
A fireball flashed through the night sky in New England on Sunday, releasing the energy of around 440 pounds of TNT.
NASA Meteor Watch reported on Monday that as residents witnessed the meteor streaking over Vermont and Massachusetts, the space rock "fragmented violently, producing a pressure wave that rattled buildings and generated the sound heard by those near the trajectory."
NASA Meteor Watch had first reported that the meteor was visible at a height of 52 miles above the Green Mountain State's Mount Mansfield State Forest and moving northeast as it traversed 33 miles through the upper atmosphere until it burned up 33 miles above Beach Hill. Although the agency had initially believed the meteor -- which was likely a fragment of an asteroid -- to have been moving at a rate of 47,000 miles per hour when it appeared at around 5:38 p.m. ET, further analysis slowed that rate down to 42,000 miles per hour.
More than 100 reports were made to the American Meteor Society from New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Canada.
Source: Fireball seen over New England, Canada explodes with force of 440 lbs of TNT
NASA Meteor Watch reported on Monday that as residents witnessed the meteor streaking over Vermont and Massachusetts, the space rock "fragmented violently, producing a pressure wave that rattled buildings and generated the sound heard by those near the trajectory."
NASA Meteor Watch had first reported that the meteor was visible at a height of 52 miles above the Green Mountain State's Mount Mansfield State Forest and moving northeast as it traversed 33 miles through the upper atmosphere until it burned up 33 miles above Beach Hill. Although the agency had initially believed the meteor -- which was likely a fragment of an asteroid -- to have been moving at a rate of 47,000 miles per hour when it appeared at around 5:38 p.m. ET, further analysis slowed that rate down to 42,000 miles per hour.
More than 100 reports were made to the American Meteor Society from New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Canada.
Source: Fireball seen over New England, Canada explodes with force of 440 lbs of TNT
That asteroid is psychologically playing with us.
It wants us to know it is lurking. EEP!
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