Want to find a piece of yesterday’s Houston-area meteorite? Here’s where NASA says to look

HOUSTON — A massive meteorite broke apart over the Houston area Saturday afternoon, according to NASA. And you may be able to find some pieces of it.

NASA said the meteorite was originally about 1 ton and three feet across.

“The resulting fireball released an amount of energy equivalent to 26 tons of TNT into the atmosphere,” NASA said in a news release. “Most of an object like this is reduced to atoms and fine droplets during the fireball and only a few percent of the total mass survives to reach the ground, scattered across a range of meteorite sizes.”…

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