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Meteor explodes above New England

A meteor traveling at 75,000 mph exploded above the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border Saturday. Shanelle Kaul reports.
May 31 (01:37)

TRANSCRIPT FOR: “METEOR EXPLODES ABOVE NEW ENGLAND, RATTLING HOMES FROM BOSTON TO RHODE ISLAND”

SHANELLE KAUL:
00:00:38

The fireball, traveling at 75,000 miles per hour, rattled windows and shook homes from Boston to Rhode Island. [BOOMING] Meteorologist Eric Fisher, from our CBS station in Boston, says while meteors are common, ones this big are not. So the big boom that everyone hears is the sonic boom. It's a pressure wave that's building up ahead of, basically, a rock hurtling through space. So as that rock is heating up, it fragments, and at some point, can explode. So where is it? Where is the debris? [CHUCKLES] So it isn't really like the day after tomorrow, where people are looking for the tsunami, or something like that, afterwards. The way this one was traveling, if anything did make it to the surface, it's probably in the Atlantic. And NASA says that any remnants of this particular meteor would be about hundred feet underwater in Cape Cod Bay, adding that this debris could potentially be recovered using magnetic technology. Jericka?

JERICKA DUNCAN:
00:01:34

All right. Glad no one was hurt. Shanelle Kaul, thank you.

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