An earth - browse fireball skimmed through the atmosphere 63 miles above South Carolina late last week , impart a bright trail for 290 mile before combust up over Tennessee . The entire 20 - second event was beguile by a NASA telescope .
On May 15th at just after 8:30 pm primal time , a lump of rock roughly 10 inches in diameter ( the size of a basketball ) entered the ambiance above Columbia , South Carolina . The meteoroid cream through the upper atmosphere for 290 sea mile at a blistering pace of 78,000 miles per hour before burning up above the Tennessee countryside northerly of Chattanooga .
trope captured byASGARD , part of theNASA All - sky Fireball internet .
The meteor was not part of any meteor shower , rather traipsing through near - Earth space solo . This character of meteor that just barely skims through our atmosphere is a officially known as an earthgrazer .
For more footage of powerhouse , here ’s adaytime fireball in the skies over Toronto , Canada , and theatmospheric signal of a human dynamo explode over Russia .
https://gizmodo.com/daytime-fireball-near-toronto-1572100276
https://gizmodo.com/seismic-signal-of-the-russian-fireball-1566171076
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