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Massive boom over US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.
The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
The American Meteor Society says a 3-foot meteor caused the boom heard across Massachusetts and parts of the Northeast ...
Some people in Western New York and Southern Ontario witnessed a fireball in the sky early Wednesday morning, and a few among them reported hearing a bang. Local astronomers suspect it was a meteor ...
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