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Here's Where NASA Says Meteorite that Thousands Heard over Massachusetts May Have Landed
NASA said radar data points to the 3-foot-wide meteorite’s possible landing site in Cape Cod Bay after a boom heard by thousands.
- On Saturday, a 3-foot-wide meteorite caused a loud boom heard across Massachusetts and the Northeast, with NASA officials stating the object likely landed in Cape Cod Bay after analyzing National Weather Service radar data.
- Robert Lundsford, the Fireball Program Monitor with the American Meteor Society, reported dozens of accounts from Delaware to Montreal describing a double boom and bright fireball, which he said was 'definitely bigger than a normal fireball.'
- At 2:11 p.m. Saturday, NOAA's GOES-19 weather satellite recorded a burst over the Massachusetts coast. NASA clarifies that an object is classified as a meteorite only when it survives entering Earth's atmosphere at 'high speed and burns up' to hit the ground.
- Because the meteorite is likely magnetic and the water depth is only about 100 feet, StormTeam 5 meteorologist A.J. Burnett said 'somebody with a really long rope and a really long magnet, could fish up some pieces of this.'
- State officials, the Weston Observatory, and the U.S. Geological Survey are reviewing the event as authorities work to confirm the impact site and gather more information regarding the boom heard across the region.
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