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Cameras in the Pittsburgh area captured a bright meteor streaking across blue sky on Tuesday morning.
Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of this event exactly," Steven Sladek said of the meteorite that shook Northeast Ohio on Tuesday.
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7-ton meteor streaks across Cleveland sky, unleashes energy of 250 tons of TNT in massive boom
A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents, who feared an explosion.
NASA has confirmed the loud, booming sound heard near Cleveland on Tuesday morning was caused by an asteroid — which was approximately six feet in diameter and weighed roughly seven tons. According to the National Weather Service,
A 45,000 mph meteor for the ages made a captivating *boom* in Medina County Tuesday afternoon. The sound of the meteor startled many people, including Keone Knapp in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. Knapp said his whole house shook.
A meteor caused a loud boom heard across the Ohio Valley on March 17, but a meteor strike in the mid-Atlantic seems unlikely.
A 7-ton meteor caused a loud boom and bright flash over Northeast Ohio on Tuesday morning. Residents reported feeling vibrations and hearing a sound that shook their homes. Experts say the meteor was too small to be detected before it entered Earth's atmosphere,