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Rare 'daytime fireball' creates powerful sonic boom as 7-ton smeteor explodes above eastern US
A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT,
NASA's All Sky Fireball Network has indicated that a 7-ton asteroid approximately six feet wide exploded over Northeast Ohio on March 17, 2026. The American Meteor Society supported reports about a daytime bolide that was seen from 10 states in the US,