More than 30 people in three states reported seeing a bright fireball in the sky. It was followed by a loud boom, according to a post on the local emergency management services' Facebook page.
The fireball was about a foot in diameter and weighed about 90 lbs., according to the Claiborne CountyEMA post.
The post said that it generated an energy equivalent of three tons of TNT.
One resident said the object was the size of a basketball in the sky. Residents shared photos of what they saw overhead after a post about a meteorite was made on Mississippi's statewide emergency management office.
I saw this on my way home, one person said.
Last week, scientists said that a huge asteroid the size of the Empire State Building would narrowly miss hitting Earth. According to a Live Science post, the asteroid skimmed by our planet at a distance of 2 million miles.
The difference between a meteorite and an asteroid is whether the chunk is in the sky or on the ground. NASA says car-sized meteors hit Earth's atmosphere and burn up pretty much every year, so the one seen yesterday was certainly smaller and hardly a threat.
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