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NASA has confirmed that a bright fireball meteor exploded in the sky over New England on Saturday (May 30), releasing the equivalent energy of about 230 tons of TNT and generating a sonic boom heard across multiple U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
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Massive boom over US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
Many home security cameras picked up the image of an object falling to earth, disappearing in a flash… and some say they heard a loud boom.
A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.
That loud boom and bright flash that woke many across Western New York early Wednesday? Scientists say it came from space.
A meteor exploded over New England Saturday afternoon, creating a daytime fireball and a massive “double boom” that shook local homes. The American Meteor Society reported the space rock puncture the atmosphere around 2:30 p.
Learn more about the meteor that caused a mysterious double boom across parts of New England, with reports stretching from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Québec and Ontario. A meteor about 3 feet wide entered the atmosphere over New England on the ...
NBC Boston meteorologist Pamela Gardner says it was likely a meteorite entering and exploding in our atmosphere. “There’s a satellite lighting detection around Boston -but no lightning! No earthquakes on USGS either,” Gardner said. The American ...
The American Meteor Society said a boom heard by residents in multiple states Saturday afternoon was a 3-foot wide meteor entering the atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.