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Video of Huge Fireball Called “Earth Grazer” scrapes South East US
Saturday, May 17, 2014 0:45
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Fireball Season Starting
A rare, long-lasting fireball streaked through the skies of the southeastern United States Thursday night (May 15), putting on a show for stargazers lucky enough to see it from the ground.
The space rock entered Earth’s atmosphere above Columbia, South Carolina. The basketball-sized meteoroid then moved northwest at about 78,000 mph (125,500 km/h), burning up above Tennessee, according to a statement from Bill Cooke of NASA’s meteoroid environment office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. NASA’s skyward-pointing cameras captured an amazing video of the long-duration fireball.
