{"id":480882,"date":"2026-03-17T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480882\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:44:08","slug":"a-large-meteor-is-visible-from-much-of-ohio-and-parts-of-neighboring-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480882\/","title":{"rendered":"A large meteor is visible from much of Ohio and parts of neighboring states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large meteor crashed through the sound barrier above northern Ohio on Tuesday morning, producing a large fireball and what <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jacecraftmiller\/status\/2033892811464933598\" rel=\"nofollow\">local residents described<\/a> as an extremely loud \u201cboom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to various eyewitness reports, the meteor\u2019s bright streak through the morning sky was visible across a wide area. A National Weather Service meteorologist in Pennsylvania, Jared Rackley, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPittsburgh\/status\/2033904011183546605\" rel=\"nofollow\">captured video<\/a> of the meteor passing through the atmosphere and creating a large fireball. So far, there have been no reports of impacts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The precise location of the fireball was pinpointed by a near-infrared optical detector on a geostationary satellite at 9:01 am ET (13:01 UTC). This \u201cgeostationary lightning mapper\u201d revealed that the meteor traversed through the atmosphere in northern Ohio, just west of Cleveland, and over Lake Erie.<\/p>\n<p>A meteoroid\u2014a small body moving through space\u2014is called a meteor when it encounters a planet\u2019s atmosphere and subsequently produces a bright streak of light. This occurs because the meteoroid is traveling many times faster than the speed of sound.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the \u201cboom\u201d was not due to breaking the sound barrier, like a supersonic aircraft, but rather to the hypersonic meteoroid generating a powerful shockwave as it moved through the atmosphere. This shockwave compresses the air, producing a series of sonic booms or even a rumbling sound.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was available about the size and impacts of the meteor as of mid-morning on Tuesday. This story will be updated if additional information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large meteor crashed through the sound barrier above northern Ohio on Tuesday morning, producing a large fireball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-480882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}