Boston Fireball Fragments at 75,000 Mph, Releasing 300 Tons of TNT

11 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 30

NASA said the 2 p.m. blast over the Boston area came from a fireball that broke apart about 40 miles above the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
300 tons of TNT equivalent energy were released as the rock fragmented, producing booms heard from Quebec through New England and as far south as Maryland.
Cloud cover likely hid the fireball from many residents; American Meteor Society director Carl Hergenrother said it may have been about basketball-sized and appears to have fallen into the ocean.
Boston police fielded calls from across Massachusetts and sent officers to Brighton before the cause was identified, after residents speculated about everything from an attack to aliens.
About a half-dozen such atmospheric breakups occur over the continental U.S. each year, Hergenrother said, though a similar South Carolina boom earlier this week was not linked to a meteor.

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