A video newly released by the American Meteor Society shows a fireball moving across the sky above North Carolina last Friday. According to NASA Meteor Watch, the phenomenon was seen over North Carolina after 7:30PM and was one of several fireball sightings in the U.S. that night. An analysis from NASA said the meteor “skimmed the coast of North Carolina,” noticeable to viewers when it was some 48 miles above the ocean near Jacksonville, North Carolina, as it blazed across the sky at 32,000 mph.
Meteoroids typically enter Earth’s atmosphere at 25,000 to 160,000 mph; however, they “rapidly decelerate” as they travel through the atmosphere. The fireball traveled 26 miles through Earth’s upper atmosphere, later disintegrating 28 miles above Morehead City, North Carolina. Up to 150 people across Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia also reported seeing a streaking fireball go across their states
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