NASA confirms Cape Cod meteor is an iron meteorite
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NASA confirms the Cape Cod meteor recovered there is an iron meteorite, based on analysis of the fragments, highlighting its metallic iron-rich composition and contributing to the catalog and study of iron meteorites.
- NASA says meteor that landed in Cape Cod considered to be made of iron Yahoo
- Meteor that landed in Cape Cod Bay may have been made of iron and was unusually dense, NASA says The Boston Globe
- Meteor explodes off coast of Massachusetts, causing loud boom CBS News
- On a Saturday afternoon in May 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the atmosphere over New England at 75,000 mph and broke apart with the energy of roughly 300 tons of TNT, and the boom carried from Delaware to Montreal, farther than any fragment e Space Daily
- Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada The Guardian
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