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Key FactsFireball Reported Over Georgia and Southeast
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: ajc.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: ajc.com
- NASA expert Bill Cooke said the fireball appeared shortly after noon, 48 miles above Oxford, and traveled southwest at 30,000 mph.
- According to Cooke, it disintegrated 27 miles above West Forest, releasing energy equivalent to about 20 tons of TNT.
- The roughly 100 reports came from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee; most originated in Georgia.
- Lusk said atmospheric entry produced a sonic boom; a report of possible debris in Henry County remained unconfirmed.
(It looked like) a really huge firework, and then it just disappeared. We didn't hear any bang or see any smoke or nothing,— Williams, 39, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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