{"id":313352,"date":"2025-11-25T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:42:11","slug":"meteor-captured-over-northern-michigan-disintegrated-46-miles-above-lake-huron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313352\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor captured over Northern Michigan disintegrated 46 miles above Lake Huron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WXYZ) \u2014 Cameras across Michigan and several other states captured a meteor in the sky early Sunday morning, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bill Cooke, the lead of NASA&#8217;s Meteor Environments Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, said there were more than 40 eyewitnesses in Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana who filed reports.<\/p>\n<p>See video of the meteor below. Video from Tecumseh, Michigan<\/p>\n<p>Meteor captured over Northern Michigan early Sunday disintegrated 46 miles above Lake Huron, NASA says<\/p>\n<p>The fireball was seen over Northern Michigan at 5:29 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 23, according to Cooke.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of the accounts and cameras in the area showed that the meteor first became visible 62 miles above Hubbard Lake, north of Barton City, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke said that the meteor was moving a bit northeast at 98,500 miles per hour and traveled 82 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 46 miles above Lake Huron. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This event appears to have been caused by a small comet fragment and was not part of any currently active meteor shower,&#8221; NASA said. &#8220;It was too small and too fast to have dropped any\u00a0meteorites into Lake Huron.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764099731_761_\" alt=\"Meteor track november 23, 2025 michigan\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1127\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WXYZ) \u2014 Cameras across Michigan and several other states captured a meteor in the sky early Sunday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[4299,2120,4301,79,193,4300],"class_list":{"0":"post-313352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-7-action-news","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-metro-detroit","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-wxyz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}