Whereas, a meteor is the streak of light seen when an asteroid or meteoroid enter’s the Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA. A meteorite is an asteroid or meteoroid which does not burn up before impact.
A fireball streaked across the evening sky over New England on Sunday, March 7th. Residents of Vermont, Massachusetts, and parts of New York state saw a meteor enter the atmosphere. At 5:38 p.m. ET, the cosmic rock was traveling at an estimated 42,000 miles per hour.
NASA’s Meteor Watch confirmed that people witnessed and some even heard the meteor enter the Earth’s atmosphere. Meteor Watch described the moment it exploded. The statement was that it “fragmented violently, producing a pressure wave that rattled buildings and generated the sound heard by those near the trajectory.”
The meteor first became visible 52 miles above Green Mountain State’s Mount Mansfield State Forest. It moved Northeasterly through the upper atmosphere until it hit the atmosphere and exploded 33 miles above Beach Hill.
