Meteor explodes over Boston as sonic boom rings out across Massachusetts
A fiery object shattered fell off the coast of BostonIt caused a series of sonic booms that could be heard in numerous towns and cities across the state.
Eric Fisher, chief meteorologist at WBZ-TV, the Boston affiliate of CBS News. Meteor crashed off the coast of Boston Around 2pm EDT on May 30th. According to a report submitted to the American Meteor Society, Fisher’s explanation was that this event was “It definitely doesn’t burn.”
The AMS report adds: “The object appears to have disintegrated off the southern coast of Massachusetts.” “Sounds heard in multiple cities/towns in eastern MA.”
Approximately 50 witness reports of meteor sightings were submitted to AMS in eight states and Canada.
More than 100 meteors are recorded in this composite image taken during the peak of the Geminid meteor shower in 2014.
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‘Then there was silence’
According to the explanations in the report, the sound coming from the object was not thunder but “resembled a sonic boom”. Two more explosions reportedly followed and “then there was silence,” AMS said.
Another report submitted to the American Meteor Society came from a couple. driving on the highway a few hundred miles away in New York.
A Perseid meteor seen streaking across the sky in the early morning hours of August 4, 2015.
A meteoric year
another one meteor It left a trail more than 100 miles across the sky in parts of the eastern United States, causing the fireball to be seen in many cities and states on April 7.
The meteor passed from the northeast of the country at around 14.34. According to NASAhe also described it as a ball of fire. People in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania He reported seeing the fireball to the American Meteor Society. around that time.
A bright Perseid meteor appeared in the northern sky during the Perseid meteor shower on August 12, 2021.
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The April 7 meteor marks the last in a series of asteroids seen in the atmosphere as they disintegrate at Earth.
Other recent meteor sightings come after other fireballs were spotted in other parts of the country, including the West Coast, Midwest and Texas.
March has been a month full of fireballs lighting up the skies, with different events reported in California, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Ohio, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Ontario, Canada.
What is a meteor?
A meteor is a space rock that orbits the sun, such as a comet or asteroid. The difference between the three lies in both how close to Earth it is and what it is primarily made of. According to NASA.
While an asteroid is a small, rocky object usually found orbiting Mars and Jupiter, and a comet is a space object composed of ice and dust, meteors are formed when a space rock enters the Earth’s atmosphere. Meteors, often called “shooting stars,” come from meteoroids, which are small, often pebble-sized pieces that break off from asteroids or comets. When a meteor enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a meteor. Because they enter the atmosphere very quickly, meteors burn as they fall from the sky, creating a line of light that we call a shooting star or fireball.
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