CONNECTICUT — Greater than 100 eyewitnesses throughout Connecticut and neighboring states reported seeing a fireball streak overhead Saturday night time.
The meteor was once reported at 9:08 p.m. by means of skywatchers in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia submitting stories with the American Meteor Society
SubscribeNASA showed the sightings.
“An research of those stories signifies that the fireball first was visual 50 miles above the New York Town suburb of Mamaroneck, shifting at bit east of north at 38,000 miles in step with hour,” the company reported on social media. The distance rock disintegrated round 30 miles above Norven Inexperienced State Woodland, after travelling some 37 miles during the higher setting. The meteor was once no longer related to any lately energetic meteor bathe, in step with the scientists.
A video submitted to AMS displays the traveler taking its spectacular, albeit simply three-second-long, ultimate burn, backdropped by means of billows of grey clouds over New Jersey.
