The large meteor was seen all over the D.C. area and throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast
Just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, a dazzling meteor darted across the sky in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, stunning eyewitnesses. The meteor followed a record hot day in the D.C. area and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic but was unrelated to any weather phenomena.It is probable that the meteor — or rock from space that entered the earth’s atmosphere — was a fireball, or particularly bright meteor.
Based on video of the event, it appears that fireball may have become a bolide which is “a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation,” according to the American Meteor Society.deployment overhead was coincidental and the reason many had taken video.
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