Fireball spotted in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware traveled at 30,000 mph before disintegrating, NASA says

A fireball spotted in the Philadelphia region Tuesday afternoon traveled more than 100 miles before disintegrating, NASA said. 

More than 200 people from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut reported seeing the fireball, according to the American Meteor Society. 

CBS News Philadelphia received videos from multiple people in South Jersey, including in Manchester Township and Medford, about the fireball moving across the sky. 

NASA report on fireball

In a report, NASA said the fireball was seen in the sky at around 2:30 p.m.

An analysis of the accounts and publicly accessible cameras shows the fireball first became visible 48 miles above the Atlantic Ocean, off the shore of Mastic Beach in Long Island, New York. 

According to NASA, the fireball was moving at 30,000 miles per hour and traveled 117 miles through the upper atmosphere before it disintegrated 27 miles above Galloway, which is just north of Atlantic City. 

What are the differences between a fireball, meteoroid, meteor and meteorite? 

NASA said what people saw in the sky Tuesday could be considered a meteor or fireball. However, the two are slightly different. 

A meteoroid is small asteroid in space. It becomes a meteor when the light is emitted from a meteoroid or asteroid as it enters the Earth's atmosphere and beings to burn.

A fireball is a meteor brighter than the planet Venus, and a meteorite is a fragment that survives passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground.