NASA Cameras Captured Meteor Over Southeastern U.S. on August 28
Posted on September 7, 2013
NASA cameras captured a fireball over the Georgia/Tennesse border, on August 28. The fireball was recorded by all six NASA cameras in the Southeast. NASA says this fireball was one of the brightest observed by the network in five years of operations. NASA says that from Chickamauga, Georgia, the meteor was 20 times brighter than the Full Moon.
NASA says that on the morning of Aug. 28 at 3:27:20 a.m. EDT, a piece of an asteroid -- about two feet in diameter and weighing over 100 pounds -- entered Earth's atmosphere above the Georgia/Tennessee border. The meteor was moving northeast at 56,000 mph and began to break apart north east of Ocoee, Tenn, at an altitude of 33 miles. A second fragmentation occurred less than half a second later, at an altitude of 29 miles.
NASA says there are indications on Doppler weather radar of a rain of small meteoritic particles falling to the ground east of Cleveland, Tenn. Take a look: