We can't stop watching this fireball shoot over three states
LatestNASA published a short video Tuesday showing a meteor shoot across the early morning sky above Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. The mesmerizing film is only a few seconds long:
On its Facebook page, NASA Meteor Watch described the flaming object as “a space rock about 2 feet in diameter and weighing roughly 500 pounds,” explaining that it “entered Earth’s atmosphere above western Pennsylvania.” According to the agency, the object was filmed by 3 meteor cameras near Beaver Falls and was lost from view by Kittanning.
The American Meteor Society posted this heat map of reports from residents in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio:
The group called for witness reports of the meteor, and made 96 of them public on its website. One viewer shared his own video:
Some described the incident as almost supernatural:
“It was a fast, beautiful, light blue light with a hue about it.”
and terrifying:
while others were more stoic:
Whatever it looked like in real time, we’re glad NASA caught it on tape.
Danielle Wiener-Bronner is a news reporter.
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