According to NASA, the fireball was just one of five meteors reported to have passed over the United States sky that night. The meteor streaked near the coast of North Carolina over the ocean off Camp Lejeune, at about 7:40 p.m. ET.
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Reported Live Science, Tuesday (28/9/2021), a brightly lit meteor following a northeast trajectory streaked 42 km through Earth’s upper atmosphere before disintegrating 45 km above Morehead City, North Carolina.
The video footage, taken from a camera on the terrace of a house in Rowland Pond, North Carolina, shows outer rock it left a dazzling trail of fire in the night sky before disappearing behind the distant tree cover. If a fireball explodes in the Carolina sky, it can cause serious damage.
The most explosive meteor event in recent history, which occurred over the city of Chelyabinsk in central Russia in 2013. The meteor created an explosion roughly equivalent to 400-500 kilotons of TNT, or 26 to 33 times the energy released by the bomb. Hiroshima.
Fireballs rained down on Chelyabinsk and its surroundings, damaging buildings, breaking windows and injuring about 1,200 people. The Chelyabinsk explosion was far from the most apocalyptic event caused by a fireball.
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Recent archaeological evidence shows fireball exploded over the ancient Middle Eastern city of Tall el-Hamman some 3,600 years ago. The explosion, about 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
As a result of the explosion, the entire city was instantly engulfed in flames and instantly flattened by a powerful shockwave that killed all its occupants, Live Science previously reported.
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