Meteor (May 30) over New Hampshire and Massachusetts

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A meteor was detected and observed falling into Massachusetts.

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According to the American Meteor Society, the sighting appears to line up with a much larger event going on across the Northeast. They confirmed that a meteor roughly three feet (~1 m) wide entered Earth's atmosphere near the Massachusetts and New Hampshire border.

Driver, Dan Wilcox observed the meteor from Rome, New York about 175 miles (281 km) from the intersection of the Vermont/New Hampshire border with Massachusetts. The Massachusetts/New Hampshire border runs east-west.

The dashcam footage was shared with the American Meteor Society to determine whether it was actually part of the larger meteor event. Robert Lundford, Fireball Program Monitor for the organization, said that it is "certain" that the footage is of the same meteor.

"This object was seen all the way from Maine down to Delaware," explained Lunsford. That means that it's very likely that others across the East Coast may have witnessed the same meteor tearing through the atmosphere.

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NASA officials confirmed that the meteor was natural material, not a satellite or space debris, and that it entered the atmosphere at 2:06 p.m.

American Meteor Society program monitor Robert Lunsford said the group received dozens of reports from Delaware to Montreal with people either hearing the double boom, feeling the ground shake or seeing the fireball, which he said looked like a shooting star in the daytime sky.

“It was definitely bigger than a normal fireball, about a yard wide,” he said.

NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel said the meteor was travelling at about 75,000 mph (121,000 km/h) and likely fragmented about 40 miles above the ground above northeast Massachusetts and southeast New Hampshire. The agency estimated that the energy released when it broke up was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, accounting for the loud booms.

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NASA told ABC News in a statement that the meteor, also known as a "fireball," was detected around 2:06 p.m. and was traveling at a speed of 75,000 mph.

"The meteor appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles over northeast Massachusetts and southeast New Hampshire. The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise," NASA said.

https://apnews.com/article/meteor-boom-massachusetts-explosion-2b79039c94af28e4b63aaeabf06c6844