Many of you saw the bright light of a meteor over parts of the Houston area Saturday afternoon. Others of you heard a boom from it.
One woman may have actually had pieces of it hit her home.
Sherrie James, who lives in the Spring area, spoke with KHOU 11 about the object that smashed into her home.
We reached out to the National Weather Service, which told us that one of their satellite products picked up what was a possible meteor or meteorite. And on Saturday night, NASA posted about what they say was a meteor. According to their post, it became visible over Stagecoach, then moved southeast at 35,000 miles per hour before breaking apart west of Cypress Station.
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“The fragmentation of the meteor – which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet – created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,” according to NASA’s post.
KHOU 11’s Jason Miles has her story tonight on KHOU 11 News after 48 hours.
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