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‘Scary’ Fireball Seen Shooting Across the Sky Confirmed as Meteor That Exploded with the Force of 20 Tons of TNT: See the Video
NASA told PEOPLE the meteor was “moving southwest at 30,000 miles per hour” over Georgia before it disintegrated with extreme ...
Watch: Meteor lights up the sky in Georgia, hits roof of home
A fireball that streaked across the sky over Georgia was identified as a large meteor, and a piece of the space debris ...
Video shows fireball meteor explode in broad daylight. How rare is this cosmic phenomenon?
Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...
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Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have punched a hole in a house in Georgia
A fireball, or a bright meteorite, was seen across the southeastern United States on Thursday and later exploded over Georgia ...
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Look Up on Friday Night and You Just Might See the Bootids Meteor Shower
Some folks already caught a sci-fi-level glimpse of it on Thursday, when a blazing meteor put a hole in a Georgia house.
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Meteor over Georgia delights, intrigues scientists, space lovers
Richard Jakiel fell in love with outer space as a kid, and his enthusiasm never waned. Now 67, the Lithia Springs man, who has taught astronomy in Cobb County high schools and at universities, plans ...
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Meteor Fragments Hit the Southeast U.S. Here's What to Know
Yesterday, one of those space boulders exploded in the skies over Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina ... resulted ...
People reported earthquakes and fire in the sky. It was probably a meteor.
The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.