A seven-ton asteroid disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere over Cleveland, Ohio, creating a fireball, sonic booms, and potentially scattering meteorites. The event was witnessed across a wide area, causing widespread reports and even 9-1-1 calls.
A seven-ton asteroid nearly six feet in diameter entered Earth’s atmosphere on Tuesday morning before exploding and breaking into pieces over a suburb in Cleveland, Ohio , according to NASA . The fireball that Northeast Ohio residents saw, as well as the explosion they heard at 9:00 a.
m. this morning, was an asteroid that broke apart over the greater Cleveland area, NASA “The asteroid unleashed an energy of 250 tons of TNT when it fragmented, resulting in a pressure wave which propagated to the ground, causing the booms and explosive noises heard by many of the public,” the agency explained. NASA added that, in addition to Ohio, “many eyewitnesses” reported seeing the fireball in Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Ontario, Canada. Moving southeast at 40,000 miles per hour, the asteroid traveled over 34 miles through the upper atmosphere before breaking into pieces 30 miles above Valley City in Medina County, Ohio — a suburb southwest of Cleveland. Fragments from the asteroid — which “may have also shook houses north of Medina” — ended up producing meteorites that may now be scattered about Medina County, NASA said. After an asteroid — which orbits the sun — breaks off and burns up in Earth’s atmosphere, it becomes a meteor. The fireball was first spotted 50 miles above Lake Erie, off the beaches of Lorain in northern Ohio.Others, meanwhile, called the police on the asteroid, resulting in at least one city texting residents, asking them to stop calling 9-1-1.Many others in Northeast Ohio posted videos that played the loud “boom” sound captured on their home surveillance cameras.Dem Rep. Garamendi: We Can End DHS Shutdown if GOP Does What We WantReport: FBI Investigating Joe Kent Over Alleged Leak of Classified InformationDemocrats Turn Markwayne Mullin Confirmation Hearing into Debate on DHS Shutdown, 2020 Election, ICEFlorida Sheriffs Call for ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegal Migrants with JobsMcGovern: DHS, TSA Shutdown Due to Trump ‘Insisting on Doubling Down on Funding ICE and CBP’, ‘I Don’t Want to Fund ICE’
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