Texas people were shocked to see that fire ball fire Across the sky on Sunday night.
According to NASA Meteor Watch, the view of the sky passed just before 9 p.m.
“Hundreds of eyewitnesses in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma reported seeing a very bright fireball last night at 8:58 pm Central Summer Time,” the agency said in a Facebook post on Monday. “An analysis of their report, along with information gleaned from several videos from public/amateur cameras, shows that the meteor was first seen 48 miles over Texas Highway 11, between Sulfur Springs and Winsboro. The meteor was moving northeast at a speed of 30 thousand. miles per hour, and it traveled 59 miles through the upper atmosphere before breaking 27 miles over the 82nd United States, east of Avery.”
“The fireball was at least as bright as a quarter moon, which means something larger than 6 inches and weighing 10 pounds. The slow speed (relative to the meteorite) suggests that a small piece of the asteroid generated a fireball.”
Hundreds of witness reports have been uploaded to the nonprofit American Meteor Society (AMS), including three videos and CBSDFW.com said Monday that others claimed they heard “bursts of sound.”
Fireballs are general And NASA has a special program for tracking bright meteor.
LiveScience noted Tuesday that thousands of tiny meteors strike Earth every year — though most hit uninhabited areas or fall into the ocean.
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