Fragments of meteorite may be in Cape Cod Bay. Can they be recovered?
NASA said the meteor that exploded over Cape Cod Bay was five feet in diameter and was traveling 42,000 miles per hour.
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NASA said the meteor that exploded over Cape Cod Bay was five feet in diameter and was traveling 42,000 miles per hour.
Harvard Professor Avi Loeb says the meteor was traveling 100 times the speed of sound. WBZ-TV's Mike Sullivan reports.
NASA said the energy released when the meteor broke up was equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT.
The meteorite that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod Bay," NASA researchers say.
According to preliminary reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, dozens of people across the Northeast reported seeing the fireball around 2 p.m. ET Saturday.
People across the eastern U.S. and in parts of Canada saw a dazzling light show on Wednesday night, as a fireball entered the atmosphere and burned up.
A meteor was spotted streaking across the sky early Friday morning over Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
"Depending upon the type of meteorite this is, specimens could easily be worth their weight in gold," said an official at the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum.
People in Massachusetts and New Hampshire reported seeing a meteor Thursday night.
A meteor over northern Vermont was seen by people around New England Sunday night.
The American Meteor Society said it received more than two-hundred reports about a "bright fireball over the East Coast" Wednesday night.
A possible meteor was spotted across northern New England Tuesday night.
Investigators and fire officials in New Hampshire are looking into the possibility that a meteor may have started a brush fire that has currently burned through about 25 acres in the White Mountains.
Police dashcams and surveillance cameras captured the fireball lighting up the sky at about 12:50 a.m.
A Portland Police sergeant's dashboard camera caught a meteor falling from the sky early Tuesday morning.
Sightings of the meteor have been reported as far south as the Washington D.C. area.
A local photographer and filmmaker was in Harvard Square Saturday night when he spotted a meteor.
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NASA said the meteor that exploded over Cape Cod Bay was five feet in diameter and was traveling 42,000 miles per hour.
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