A bright fireball that streaked across the Ohio sky on Tuesday has been confirmed as a meteor, and it’s possible that fragments are now scattered across several counties.
NASA confirmed on Tuesday that the loud boom was a result of a six-foot, 17,000-pound meteor, which was traveling 44,000 miles per hour across the sky near Lake Erie. The fireball broke up in the atmosphere, releasing energy which resulted in shaking across the area. Shortly after it fell, several National Weather Service (NWS) offices in the area posted about the meteor on their social media pages, even including a video of the fireball shooting through the sky shortly before it crashed into Earth.
The meteor sent fragments, known as meteorites, across a traceable debris field around where it landed in northeast Ohio…