Meteor explodes over US with blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT

WASHINGTON — A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, NASA said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT. The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire at 2:06 pm (1806 GMT), the US space agency’s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement. “This fireball was not associated with any currently active meteor shower, but it was a natural object and not a re-entry of space debris or a satellite,” she said. READ: Meteor explodes over Russia, nearly 1,000 […]... Keep on reading: Meteor explodes over US with blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT

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