Scientists mentioned a fireball was seen blazing across the sky on Thursday was the results of a burning meteor.
The meteor was first seen at an altitude of 48 miles above the city of Oxford, Ga., transferring southwest at 30,000 miles per hour round midday Japanese time, based on Invoice Cooke from NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Workplace on the company’s Marshall House Flight Heart in Huntsville, Ala.
Individuals throughout the Carolinas and Virginia caught a glimpse of the imploding object earlier within the afternoon.
“It disintegrated 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an power of about 20 tons of TNT. The ensuing strain wave propagated to the bottom, creating booms heard by many in that space,” Cooke mentioned in a Thursday assertion.
The fireball was produced by an asteroidal fragment 3 toes in diameter, weighing over a ton, based on the scientist.
“Presently, we should not have any info on the place the meteor could have landed,” Newton County sheriff’s workplace said in a press release.