A flash that was later determined to be from an exploding meteor was seen from the GOES-16. The credit is from the NWSPittsburgh.
On New Year's Day, a meteorite exploded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
There is a meeting at 11:30 a.m. People in Pittsburgh heard a loud boom on New Year's Day. According to CBS Pittsburgh, reports described windows rattling and objects shaking in their homes. The sudden blast surprised those living in the Pittsburgh area as the meteor broke up in the cloudy morning sky.
A bolide is a large meteor that explodes in our atmosphere, bursting apart with the energy of 30 tons of detonating.
The pictures of the shower are stunning.
The NASA social media site said that the doomed meteorite was likely traveling at over 50,000 mph as it broke apart in the atmosphere.
The event would have been as bright as the full moon if it had not been cloudy.
Some say it was a "little purple flash" through the clouds.
There is a little purple flash near Pittsburgh. It was picked up by the #GOESEast's Geostationary Lightning Mapper, but it was likely a meteorite that exploded overhead on January 1st. Some residents reported hearing a boom.
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The event was detected by the GOES-East Earth-monitoring satellite.
A fireball was spotted in the skies over West Virginia in September of 2021. The event, which was later determined to be a meteorite, caused a loud boom and shook the ground, causing some to suspect a possible earthquake.
"Fireballs" have been reported by skywatchers. Skywatchers along the Eastern coast reported hundreds of reports of seeing a craft in the sky.
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