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Updated w/statement from NASA — Meteor crashes into Massachusetts
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Updated w/statement from NASA — Meteor crashes into Massachusetts.A 3 foot meteor crashed into Northeastern Massachusetts around 2pm EDT today.I live south of Boston and other than “feeling” a slight uneasiness I can’t say we felt or heard anything.However there is a report that says it was felt/heard in Pawtucket and Providence, Rhode Island, which is south of us.My youngest son and his wife live northeast of Boston but they didn’t hear or feel it because they were in a mall at the time, around 2pm EDT.My middle son who lives in Boston proper says he thought something fell in the house.WCVB shows Franklin, MA heard it so maybe my uneasiness was me registering it.In fact since we live near a quarry and there is blasting every Monday, at the very least, I probably dismissed it as that.The WCVB video above has the boom.Here’s a Providence tv station: Officials think it crashed off shore in northeastern Mass.If so, that’s a splash I’d like to see.I’ll update when I get more info and more videos are posted.Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.The American Meteor Society said that the booms people heard were actually caused by a meteor about 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) wide entering the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston.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.– AP NASA Confirms Loud Boom Was Fireball That Sped at Roughly 75,000 MPH and Fragmented NASA can initially confirm a fireball over New England at 2:06 p.m.EDT today.Current available information puts the fireball’s speed at roughly 75,000 mph, and it appears to have fragmented at an altitude of 40 miles above extreme northeast Massachusetts/southeast New Hampshire.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.The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 26 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud booms.(later) “We also just received a revised energy released estimate for today’s fireball that now puts it equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.”