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Meteor explodes over United States, releasing blast equivalent to 300 tonnes of TNT

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At 2:06 p.m. local time, a meteor traveling about 75,000 mph exploded roughly 40 miles above northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire, releasing energy equivalent to 300 tons of TNT.

  1. US
    Jennifer Dooren
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    1. The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud booms.
    2. This fireball was not associated with any currently active meteor shower, but it was a natural object and not a re-entry of space debris or a satellite.
  2. US
    Robert Lunsford
    American Meteor Society
    1. Most of them do burn up before they hit the ground.
    2. We would need more information about the trajectory the speed and other aspects to know for sure if it hit the ground, but if it didn't burn up, then it would have landed in the ocean.
    3. It was definitely bigger than a normal fireball, about a yard wide.

sources

  1. 1.Le Monde
  2. 2.The Times of India
  3. 3.The Straits Times
  4. 4.The Guardian
  5. 5.Hindustan Times
  6. 6.CNN
  7. 7.Arab News
  8. 8.Golf News
  9. 9.Agence France-Presse
  10. 10.Associated Press
  11. 11.Reuters

perspectives

  1. 1.Astronomy
  2. 2.Asteroids

countries

  1. 1.United StatesUS
  2. 2.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  3. 3.Russian FederationRU
  4. 4.CanadaCA

organizations

  1. 1.National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  2. 2.American Meteor Society
  3. 3.US Geological Service
  4. 4.National Earthquake Information Center

persons

  1. 1.Jennifer DoorenUS
  2. 2.Robert LunsfordUS
  3. 3.Steve Sobie
  4. 4.Allard Beutel

technicals

  1. 1.Leonids Meteor Shower
  2. 2.Mayon Volcano