“Heard the loudest boom just now in northeast OH. People heard it as far as Avon. What was that? Meteor? @NWSCLE,” wrote @jacecraftmiller on X.<\/p>\n
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Eyewitness accounts of Tuesday’s daylight fireball were taken from at least ten states, Washington DC and Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n
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In fact, eyewitnesses from at least ten states (Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia) plus the District of Columbia and the Canadian province of Ontario filed reports about the celestial body that soared through the air at 8:56 am EDT on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
According to NASA, the asteroid “unleashed an energy of 250 tons of TNT when it fragmented, resulting in a pressure wave which propagated to the ground, causing the booms and explosive noises heard by many of the public.”<\/p>\n
The NWS office in Cleveland responded with a tweet saying, “The latest GLM imagery (1301Z) does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.”<\/p>\n
GLM stands for Geostationary Lightning Mapper, and an image with the tweet indicated some type of strike over northeast Ohio.<\/p>\n
According to the National Weather Association, “GLM detects light from meteors partly because meteors look more like lightning than noise. Long, bright flares of light produced as bolides break up in the atmosphere can resemble continuous current lightning flashes in which a charged channel lights up for tens to hundreds of milliseconds.”<\/p>\n
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