The bolide soared over Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi at a speed of 55,000 miles per hour before disintegrating about 34 miles above the Earth.
PORT GIBSON, Miss. — A loud boom prefaced a streaking fireball spotted in three Southern states, scientists confirmed Thursday.
. It was first spotted 54 miles above the Mississippi River, near Alcorn, Mississippi, officials said.“This is one of the nicer events I have seen in the GLM data,” said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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