(Newsweek) – A fireball zoomed across the sky on Sunday, according to eyewitnesses in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) said on Facebook it had received more than 100 reports of a fireball being seen over Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and the Canadian province of Québec at around 5:38 p.m. ET on March 7. NASA Meteor Watch said it had also received reports of the fireball,
with analysis showing that the meteor occurred over northern Vermont, first appearing at an altitude of 52 miles above Mount Mansfield State Forest in the north of the state. The meteor moved northeast at around 47,000 miles per hour, traveling 33 miles through the Earth’s upper atmosphere before burning up 33 miles above Beach Hill in Orleans County, Vermont.
NASA said Meteor Watch hoped to refine the trajectory of the meteor as it received more reports from the public. Fireball is another term for a very bright meteor. Usually, they are brighter than magnitude -4, which is around the same for the planet Venus as seen in the morning or evening sky, according to the AMS. READ MORE
