The fourth meteor in one week was spotted streaking across the night sky from Warren, Michigan, on Monday night.<\/p>\n
For the fourth time in a week’s span, skywatchers witnessed a meteor streaking across the sky in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n According to the American Meteor Society<\/a>, many eyewitnesses across Illinois<\/a>, Indiana<\/a>, Michigan<\/a>, Ohio<\/a> and Wisconsin<\/a> have filed reports of seeing a bright meteor light up the sky on Monday night.<\/p>\n CALIFORNIA METEOR SIGHTING BECOMES THIRD IN ONE WEEK ACROSS US<\/a><\/p>\n According to experts, the fireball was moving at around 29,000 mph, 42 miles above Midland County<\/a>, Michigan. The space<\/a> rock eventually disintegrated 23 miles above Saginaw Bay.<\/p>\n A meteor lit up the sky over Palo Alto, California, while a driver was on the road on Sunday.<\/p>\n According to NASA<\/a>, the peak of the fireball descent was 40 times brighter than the planet Venus.<\/a><\/p>\n This comes as three other meteors were observed streaking across the sky in Chowchilla<\/a>, California<\/a>, Houston <\/a>and Pittsburgh<\/a>. These past meteor events were much faster than this one, but they came much closer to the surface.<\/p>\n HOW OFTEN DO METEORITES CRASH IN THE US?<\/a><\/p>\n The California meteor sighting happened just two days ago, and about 200 eyewitnesses reported seeing the fireball hurl through the night sky.<\/p>\n When meteoroids enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/a> at such a high speed and burn up, they are called meteors. This is also when we refer to bright sky objects as “shooting stars.”<\/p>\n CALIFORNIA METEOR SIGHTING BECOMES THIRD IN ONE WEEK ACROSS US<\/a><\/p>\n “Sometimes meteors can even appear brighter than Venus \u2013 that\u2019s when we call them fireballs,” a statement from NASA reads. “Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth<\/a> each day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fourth meteor in one week was spotted streaking across the night sky from Warren, Michigan, on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[230004,5629,2652,1303,79,193,953,25,27754,1745],"class_list":["post-543906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-earth-space","tag-illinois","tag-indiana","tag-michigan","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-us","tag-venus","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543906","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=543906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}