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NASA: Fireball over Houston was meteor

Saturday, December 8, 2012 17:30
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Shortly before 7 a.m. Friday, a fireball lit up the skies over Houston.

Shortly thereafter, Houstonians lit up Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites to note the streak.

But what was it: A meteor? A piece of a Russian satellite? A sign of the coming Mayan apocalypse?

The answer didn’t come until Friday afternoon, when NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke provided a definitive answer.

“It is a meteor, most likely a fragment from the asteroid belt and not associated with the Geminid meteor shower,” he said.

According to Cooke, eyewitnesses in Texas and adjacent states saw a very bright fireball streak across the sky at 6:43 a.m. It was so bright, a NASA meteor camera in Mayhill, N.M., spotted it some 500 miles to the west.

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/…100894.php



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