Small Meteor Disintegrates Over Northeastern U.S.

M. local time, or 1806 GMT. The object was traveling at 75,000 miles per hour, or more than 120,000 km/h, when it disintegrated at an altitude of 40 miles, NASA said.

The meteor disintegrated at 40 miles altitude, producing loud sonic booms heard across the region. No injuries or damage were reported. NASA’s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren said the fireball was a natural object and not associated with any currently active meteor shower, nor was it a re-entry of space debris or a satellite.

Dooren stated that the energy released at breakup accounted for the loud booms heard across the area.

M. local time, according to multiple reports citing NASA. In 2013 a fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia, released energy equivalent to 440,000 tons of TNT at an altitude of 14 miles, injuring more than 1,600 people, mostly from broken glass.