West Virginia Man's Fireball Sighting Confirmed by NASA
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An amateur astronomer in West Virginia captured the moment a 75-pound fireball, likely a comet fragment, exploded in the early morning sky as it fell from space. The fireball, witnessed by over 70 people across nine US states, including Georgia and Ohio, generated two audible booms and broke into three distinct fragments. NASA confirmed the event and stated that the fireball traveled at 37,000 miles per hour before disintegrating 30 miles above Duffield, Virginia.
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