Meteor Causes Loud Boom and Seen in Ten US States and Ontario, Canada

Since it was in NE Ohio, we wouldn't have been able to it her either. It would have been something to see & hear. I wonder if anyone was able to find any of the fragments? That may take a metal detector to do that.
 
It's all over my Nextdoor neighbor app, guess lots of people around here (Ohio) heard it, not sure how I missed it.

Many years ago I was out on a boat during the night and saw a meteor flash for several seconds, much larger and brighter than a shooting star, very cool to see. It had already flamed out when the sound hit us, it was like a super loud and long gun shot, one of those moments where everyone just says "wow!".
 
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C50 said:
It's all over my Nextdoor neighbor app, guess lots of people around here (Ohio) heard it, not sure how I missed it.

Many years ago I was out on a boat during the night and saw a meteor flash for several seconds, much larger and brighter than a shooting star, very cool to see. It had already flamed out when the sound hit us, it was like a super loud and long gun shot, one of those moments where everyone just says "wow!".
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My SIL, niece, and nephew all heard it, because of where they each work.

My brother did not hear it. He is of the understanding what was left of it landed somewhere west of Cleveland.
 
Tommy said:
Who here remembers hearing "sonic booms" from military jets when they were young? We would hear them occasionally created by planes flying out of Selfridge AFB (north of Detroit).
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About 20 years ago I was on a trip near an air show in Florida, in a parking lot. Something flew over and boom ... it was funny with so many auto alarms going off :ROFLMAO:
 
Fun Fact: Orbiting satellites have sensors for detecting asteroids and are programed to move out of the way if a collision is inevitable. That can start a chain reaction because other satellites are programed to move out of the way of the first satellite, and so on.

It's never happened before, but experts say a chain-reaction avoidance event could last for days, weeks, or even years. Meanwhile, we'd experience glitches and interruptions in systems that rely on satellites providing services i.e. GPS, streaming, communication, radar, ATC, etc., until all satellites correct their orbits.
 
Lawrence00 said:
About 20 years ago I was on a trip near an air show in Florida, in a parking lot. Something flew over and boom ... it was funny with so many auto alarms going off :ROFLMAO:
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A little over 4 years ago, I was living at an apartment complex and a bunch of us were outside for a community barbecue when an asteroid streaked across the evening sky and broke apart just above the horizon. Moms freaked out, and then little kids freaked out because their moms freaked out, and older kids scrambled for their phones so they could take photos... It was total chaos for like 3 minutes. :p

It was a pretty large asteroid, though. And I was surprised at how colorful it looked when it broke up. Looked like a firework that fizzled out just before it was supposed to burst.
 
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Who here remembers hearing "sonic booms" from military jets when they were young? We would hear them occasionally created by planes flying out of Selfridge AFB (north of Detroit).
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I do. We were stationed at Strategic Air Command bases when my dad was in the USAF. Sonic booms were normal to hear.

I had no idea that shooting stars are meteors. I've never seen one, but now I'd like to. And I thought only jets made sonic booms.
 
Turns out my house is right in what they speculate to be the fragment landing area. The larger chunks are thought to have landed about 15 miles from here but smaller pieces are allegedly being found within a few miles of me. I looked on my house and barn roofs and along my drive but found nothing, chances are slim of finding a piece but I'm going to keep hoping.
 
Good thing none of the pieces hit and destroy any living things or personal properties. In one of the news reports a man who must have been filming said "What the (bleep) is that?!" Yes, the station bleeped it out, so I don't know what word he used, though I can guess.
 
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Good thing none of the pieces hit and destroy any living things or personal properties. In one of the news reports a man who must have been filming said "What the (bleep) is that?!" Yes, the station bleeped it out, so I don't know what word he used, though I can guess.
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One man locally claimed pieces punched thru his barn roof, there was a picture of him holding small rocks in his hand that are allegedly meteorite pieces. They looked like basic stones to me, just like the ones I have under my deck.
 
There was another meteor shower. This time, a piece fell into a woman's home. Apparently there were three meteor showers pretty much over the same areas within the last week.
 
In about 2 weeks, a type of asteroid called a Sun-Grazer is expected to put on a big, colorful show in the western sky when it enters the sun's plasma and creates a bunch of flares as it bursts and all its bits become sun-plasma themselves.

Sun Grazers do that all the time, and we don't even notice. But the one heading toward the sun right now is unusually large. It's very, very large.
 
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