Meteor — described as ‘Biggest ball of fire’ by shocked witnesses — lights up sky over Tennessee, NASA says - New York Post
A small asteroid fragment entered the atmosphere over Tennessee, creating a bright fireball visible to witnesses. NASA confirmed the object was a two-inch piece of space debris that disintegrated before impact.
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Make New York Post a Preferred Source A meteor that lit up a southeastern Tennessee sky on Thursday in what one witness called the “biggest ball of fire” they’d ever seen was a piece of an asteroid vaporizing above Earth, NASA said.
The fireball was first spotted above Robbinsville, North Carolina around 7:45 p.m., traveling around 47,000 miles per hour in Earth’s atmosphere, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported.
The fireball was first spotted above Robbinsville, North Carolina around 7:45 p.m., traveling around 47,000 miles per hour in Earth’s atmosphere, officials said. AP T he cosmic debris then traveled around 120 miles toward East Ridge, Tennessee in under 10 seconds, where it disintegrated 25 miles above the Earth’s surface.
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