On Tuesday at around 9:00 a.m. EDT, a possible meteor created a loud boom south of Lake Erie, heard widely across Ohio.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/x.com\/NWSCLE\/status\/2033894680241242489<\/p>\n
Reports on the American Meteor Society\u2019s<\/a> website indicate the meteor was heard or seen in several places, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Virginia, Illinois, and Mississauga, Ontario.<\/p>\n Residents in the Cleveland, Ohio area reported a \u201cdeep, powerful blast that shook houses, rattled windows, and sent people rushing outside to see what had happened,\u201d according to Cleveland.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n On satellite imagery, the meteor resembled a lightning strike, but there were no thunderstorms in the area at the time.<\/p>\n More about meteors<\/p>\n \u201cScientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44 tonnes or 44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day,\u201d NASA says on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAlmost all the material is vaporized in Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a bright trail fondly called \u2018shooting stars.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n NASA says on a given night, one can usually see \u201cseveral\u201d meteors per hour in the sky.<\/p>\n But, it is considered \u201cextremely rare<\/a>\u201d for a large meteor to make it to the ground intact. When they do, they often fall in uninhabited areas, given that Earth is mostly covered in water<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday at around 9:00 a.m. EDT, a possible meteor created a loud boom south of Lake Erie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64528,136,138,137,64530,260,64529],"class_list":["post-140785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-american-meteor-society","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-jim-lloyd","tag-lake-erie","tag-meteor-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}