Multiple people from across Northeast Ohio have called the News 5 newsroom to report hearing a loud boom.<\/p>\n
Meteor captured in Broadview Heights<\/p>\n
A NASA spokesperson spoke with reporter Clay LePard, confirming the meteor was spotted near Medina. <\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Service, the loud boom was caused by the meteor. <\/p>\n
News 5 anchor Damon Maloney spoke with the National Weather Service and was told that early information is “suggesting that the boom was the result of a meteor” based on satellite imagery and lightning mapping technology.<\/p>\n
Dr. Ralph Harvey from Case Western told Clay LePard that the meteor was sized between an engine block and a full-blown car that hit the earth’s atmosphere heading from north to south. <\/p>\n
“It was at a very high altitude when it hit the atmosphere,” Harvey said. <\/p>\n
He said the chances of it hitting something are pretty slim. <\/p>\n
“At this moment in time, the people in that area are very lucky people. I hope everybody that goes out on a dog walk or strolling through the fields or the parking lot, I hope they’re all keeping their eyes open for a rock that looks out of place,” Harvey said. <\/p>\n
Harvey believes the meteor was moving at about 20 kilometers a second. <\/p>\n
“Rocks can’t handle that pressure very well, so it blew up and made this beautiful fireball,” Harvey said. <\/p>\n
Meteors going through the air, causing a boom, happen several times a day, but what makes this unusual is that it went over a populated area, Harvey said. <\/p>\n
Reports of the boom were heard from as far west as Norwalk and as far east as Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n
The reports began at 8:56 a.m. <\/p>\n
News 5 will update this story when we learn more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple people from across Northeast Ohio have called the News 5 newsroom to report hearing a loud boom.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[61813,197,24030,237926,237927,79,193],"class_list":["post-529054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-avon","tag-meteor","tag-national-weather-service","tag-news-5","tag-northeast-ohio","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529054","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=529054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}