NASA just had a pretty unsettling moment, missing a significant meteor explosion right over Cleveland, Ohio, on March 17. This blast, which delivered a shockwave equivalent to about 250 tons of TNT, came from an object that was just two meters wide and weighed roughly seven tonnes.
According to UNILAD, the meteor entered our atmosphere at approximately 8:57 AM EDT, first becoming visible at an altitude of around 50 miles above Lake Erie. It then traveled for more than 30 miles through the upper atmosphere before finally breaking apart at about 30 miles above northern Ohio.
