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A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded implicit the northeastern United States connected Saturday, NASA said, mounting disconnected booms that echoed implicit the portion with a blast equivalent to 300 tonnes of TNT.
The fireball broke up implicit northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire astatine 2:06 p.m. (11:36 p.m. IST), the U.S. abstraction agency’s lawman quality main Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement.
“This fireball was not associated with immoderate presently progressive meteor shower, but it was a earthy entity and not a re-entry of abstraction debris oregon a satellite,” she said.
“The vigor released astatine breakup is estimated to beryllium equivalent to astir 300 tonnes of TNT, which accounts for the large booms,” she added.
The meteor was travelling astatine 75,000 mph (more than 120,000 kph) astatine an altitude of 40 miles erstwhile it broke apart, Ms. Dooren said.
Area residents were alarmed by the unexpected large booms, with societal media users reporting they were truthful almighty that houses were shaking.
