{"id":705633,"date":"2026-05-31T04:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:40:10","slug":"unexpected-cosmic-boom-nasa-confirms-meteor-explodes-over-us-northeast-residents-report-houses-trembling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/705633\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected cosmic boom: Nasa confirms meteor explodes over US northeast, residents report houses trembling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, May 31 \u2014 A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, Nasa said, setting off booms that echoed over the region with a blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire at 2.06pm (1806 GMT), the US space agency\u2019s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fireball was not associated with any currently active meteor shower, but it was a natural object and not a re-entry of space debris or a satellite,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud booms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meteor was traveling at 75,000 mph (more than 120,000 kph) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart, Dooren said.<\/p>\n<p>Area residents were alarmed by the unexpected loud booms, with social media users reporting they were so powerful that houses were shaking. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, May 31 \u2014 A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, Nasa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,343325,486,343326,131,58650,128,3601],"class_list":["post-705633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jennifer-dooren","tag-massachusetts","tag-meteor-explosion","tag-nasa","tag-new-hampshire","tag-science","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}