While meteors aren’t exactly rare, one making landfall in the middle of a densely populated area is. But that’s exactly what happened yesterday afternoon in Blacksville, a town just south of Atlanta, Georgia.
Around noon local time, hundreds of reports of a fireball in the sky flooded into the American Meteor Society and the National Weather Service. The meteorite is estimated to have started as a roughly three-foot wide chunk of asteroid, barreling through the atmosphere at approximately 29,000 miles per hour before breaking apart about 27 miles above the earth, according to NASA.
