A meteor exploded off the coast of Boston

Traveling astatine 75,000 miles an hour, breaking up 40 miles supra the ground. | Image: CIRA

On Saturday, astatine astir 2:06 p.m. ET, a meteor streaked implicit the northeastern US and exploded northbound of Cape Cod Bay. The fireball was caught connected camera by several people, shook houses, and tin adjacent beryllium seen intelligibly successful satellite imagery, lighting up the sky.

Some residents initially thought that the shaking and roar whitethorn person been an earthquake, but the United States Geological Survey (USGS) denied that, saying that it was a "widely felt sonic roar from a suspected bolide." In a connection posted connected X, NASA described the lawsuit arsenic a "bright fireball… accompanied by a large noise."

The meteor was traveling astatine astir 75,000 miles per hr when, acc …

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