NASA confirms 3-foot meteor exploded over Massachusetts (opens in new tab)

NASA said a natural meteor, not a satellite or space debris, entered the atmosphere over the northeastern United States at 2:06 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, producing a bright daytime fireball and loud booms heard across parts of New England and Canada. The American Meteor Society estimated the object was about 3 feet, or nearly 1 meter, wide when it entered near the New Hampshire-Massachusetts border north of Boston. NASA said the meteor was traveling at about 75,000 mph, or more than 120,0...