Meteorite impact tracked by radar
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It was visible around 4:40 p.m. Saturday. According to NASA, it broke apart just west of Cypress Station.
According to the National Weather Service, the loud sonic boom was caused by the meteor. A NASA spokesperson spoke with reporter Clay LePard, confirming the meteor was spotted near Medina. "I woke up this morning, and the sky fell, so I feel like Chicken Little right now," Bill Cooke, NASA's lead for the Meteoroid Environment Office, said.
Tracking meteors comes down to a series of cameras and weather radar to pick them up and try to determine where they went. (AP Photo)
The chances of the Mid-Atlantic being struck by a meteorite are slim, but you can still track meteors and meteorite showers in the Delaware Valley.
NASA has confirmed that a fireball and booms seen in northeast Ohio on March 17 was an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere.
Northeast Ohio is still buzzing after a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor soared across the sky on Tuesday morning before breaking apart in a "boom" heard across the area.
A meteor caused a loud boom heard across the Ohio Valley on March 17, but a meteor strike in the mid-Atlantic seems unlikely.