A meteor hurtling toward Earth’s atmosphere exploded over the northeastern United States, causing a loud double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to reports on Saturday.
The phenomenon released energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, accounting for the loud noise, the US space agency, NASA, wrote in a statement posted on X.
What do we know?
The meteor, measuring about 3 feet (nearly 1 meter) wide, entered the atmosphere around the New Hampshire border with Massachusetts, north of Boston, the Associated Press cited the American Meteor Society as saying.
The fireball fragmented over northeastern Massachusetts and
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