{"id":705080,"date":"2026-05-31T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:54:08","slug":"meteor-explodes-over-us-with-blast-equivalent-to-300-tonnes-of-tnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/705080\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor explodes over US with blast equivalent to 300 tonnes of TNT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (May 31): 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 tonnes 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&#8217;s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This 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,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tonnes of TNT, which accounts for the loud booms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The meteor was travelling at 75,000mph (more than 120,000kph) 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.<\/p>\n<p>Uploaded by Magessan Varatharaja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (May 31): A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the northeastern United States on Saturday, Nasa said,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-705080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}