00:02A lot of people heard it, some people saw it, and cameras captured it.
00:06A seven-ton asteroid traveling at 45,000 miles an hour when shooting across the eastern sky Tuesday morning.
00:14Take a look. A worker at the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh, right there, captured this image of the fireball
00:20racing across the sky.
00:22Witnesses in 10 states, along with Washington, D.C. and Ontario, Canada, saw it.
00:27It was accompanied by a loud boom. NASA posted this image on X. You can see the green dot there.
00:34The National Weather Service in Cleveland says the boom was likely caused by a meteor.
00:39Listen to this. As that massive chunk of space rock broke apart, it released the energy equivalent to about 250
00:47tons of TNT, which explains the sound.
00:50Some homes even shook, like an earthquake.
00:52Experts believe it fragmented over Valley City, Ohio, with pieces likely falling in Medina County, just west of Akron and
01:01about 45 miles south of Cleveland.
01:03NASA meteor expert Bill Cook says it could have been a small asteroid that burned up in the atmosphere, or
01:10a fragment from a larger one.
01:12They're still working to pin that down.
01:13Either way, it created quite a spectacle along Lake Erie, and it's still a big talker this morning.
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