An Intense Meteor Lit Up the New England Sky Before
< img src=" https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/ZPOHY8n8MzhVdJQCZlQa2TcYI58=/fit-in/1600x0/filters:focal (1116x956:1117 x957)/ https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/70/f7/70f74604-022a-4e74-a09f-c0f1e906bba3/screenshot_2026-06-01_at_115835.png" alt= "" > People reported seeing the radiant area rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Specialists estimate that it was about three feet large and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour when it disintegrated Source
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< img src=" https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/ZPOHY8n8MzhVdJQCZlQa2TcYI58=/fit-in/1600x0/filters:focal (1116x956:1117 x957)/ https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/70/f7/70f74604-022a-4e74-a09f-c0f1e906bba3/screenshot_2026-06-01_at_115835.png" alt= "" > People reported seeing the radiant area rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Specialists estimate that it was about three feet large and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour when it disintegrated
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