(WJW) – NASA has confirmed that a loud “boom” reported across Northeast Ohio on Tuesday morning was a meteor.
People around northeast Ohio flooded Nexstar’s WJW newsroom with reports of what sounded like a “large explosion” that lasted several seconds just before 9 a.m., and caused homes and businesses to “shake.”
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What caused the ‘boom’
NASA confirmed a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor traveled 44,000 mph over northeast Ohio. It was 50 miles above Lake Erie when the first flash was detected.
A meteor, sometimes called a shooting star, is a piece of space rock that crashes through Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA…