Why the Daytime Fireball Meteor that Blasted over Atlanta Was a Rare Sight

Cartersville museum collects piece of meteor from Georgia landing site

Cartersville’s Tellus Science Museum has collected a piece of the meteorite that fell from the sky and landed in the Henry County area last week.

Meteorite piece recovered by Tellus Science Museum

On June 26 a meteorite was witnessed by thousands across Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and parts of northern Florida.

Why the daytime fireball meteor that blasted over Atlanta was a rare sight

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing of the June 26 meteor that blasted across the Atlanta area during the middle of the day.

Was that an explosion? A plane crash? No, it was a meteor over Georgia

ATLANTA — A massive boom and rattling disrupted what had seemed, at least to that point, like a normal day in metro Atlanta.

Meteorite Fireball Lights Up Parts of Georgia During the Day ...