NASA Cameras Capture Awesome Video of Pennsylvania Meteor Crash

In the early hours of Tuesday the 17th of February, NASA cameras captured something rare and incredible on their All-sky Fireball Network, which is made up of 15 black and white cameras set up across the United States. This meteor was seen by three of them. According to their calculations, the meteor that tore through the atmosphere at 45,000 miles an hour, was about two feet wide and likely weighed about a quarter of a ton.

NASA lost track of the fireball when it was about 13 miles above the ground. Even at that size, the intense heat of entry into our atmosphere would have broken this meteor into several bite-sized meteorites that would have fallen just east of Kittanning, Pennsylvania.

Bill Cooke from the Meteoroid Environments Office, says the meteor was seen over Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania.

For more on the meteor’s journey, check out the NASA Meteor Watch Facebook page, where they’ve created an animation to show the point of view of the rock as it hurtled towards the planet.