Update: NASA confirms fireball meteor exploded over northeastern US with force of 230 tons of TNT

NASA shared an initial analysis of a 5-foot-wide fireball meteor that exploded in the sky over the northeastern U.S. on Saturday, May 30.

Videos capture sights and sounds of meteor exploding off coast of Massachusetts

A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.
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Exploding meteor over New England detected several states away, USGS says

The USGS noted the event was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide," referring to a meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
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Massive boom over US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms

Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.
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Hear what meteor sounded like over Rhode Island. Video captures boom

Did you hear the loud boom over Rhode Island on Saturday? By now, you likely know that the source of the noise was a meteor exploding over Cape Cod Bay, as NASA identified. "Eyewitnesses in New ...