New England<\/a> residents were rocked shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday when a meteor fragmented at 40 miles over northeast Massachusetts<\/a> and southeast New Hampshire, NASA said in a statement shared by the media. <\/p>\n \u201cThe energy released at breakup is estimated to be equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, which accounts for the loud noise,\u201d NASA explained. <\/p>\n The meteor became a meteorite when it hit Earth rather than just burning up. NASA believes the space rock fell in the middle of Cape Cod Bay<\/a>, in an event the agency dubbed a \u201cfishy squisher.\u201d<\/p>\n With the meteorite falling into 100 feet of water and likely having magnetic properties, a space rock hunter can recover it. <\/p>\n \u201cMost meteorites are strongly attracted to a magnet, and these ones are within reach of a 100′ length of rope dangled off of a boat. In case anyone is interested in such factoids,\u201d NASA said on its website<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Independent has reached out to NASA for updates on the meteorite. <\/p>\n Several New Englanders shared videos with the media of loud booms that thundered through their homes, with one Newton, Massachusetts, resident describing how his entire house began to shake. <\/p>\n \u201cIt literally felt like someone was slamming all our doors in the house at once,\u201d Manny Kharasch told ABC News<\/a>\u2019 Good Morning America. \u201cWhatever that shock wave was, was enough to literally move things.\u201d<\/p>\n The meteorite\u2019s impact wasn\u2019t just limited to New England. <\/p>\n Robert Lunsford from the American Meteor Society said the nonprofit received dozens of reports from Delaware to Montreal of people hearing a boom, feeling the ground shake or seeing a fireball in the sky, per the Associated Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n NASA said the meteorite was a natural object, not a satellite or space debris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-618384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618384","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=618384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-at-2-21-22-PM.jpg\")
A meteorite that caused a boom over Cape Cod may have landed in the bay, NASA has revealed (Daniel Wilcox)<\/p>\n![\"With](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Screenshot-2026-06-01-at-2-27-02-PM.jpg\")
With the meteorite falling into 100 feet of water and likely having magnetic properties, a space rock hunter can recover it (NASA\/Google Earth)<\/p>\n