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A thunderous boom heard and felt widely across northeast Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania Tuesday morning was likely the result of a meteor.
Area residents took to social media, describing what they heard as “the loudest boom” “some sonic booms” And “rumble.” Others reported seeing a ball of fire and a streak of light streak across the sky.
The Pittsburgh office of the National Weather Service posted a dramatic video on Xcaptured by one of his employees, showing a fireball with a long tail sweeping across a cloudless sky.
The Cleveland Weather Service, meanwhile, shared images from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-19 satellite, saying: “The latest GLM (1301Z) images suggest the boom was the result of a meteor.” »
Rocky objects traveling through space are called meteors, but when they enter Earth’s atmosphere and create fireballs, they are called meteors. All fragments that fall to the Earth’s surface are meteorites.
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