Meteor explodes over Massachusetts, setting off loud booms (opens in new tab)

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Meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apartA meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the north-eastern United States on Saturday, The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire just after 2pm (1806 GMT), the US space agency’s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement.

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