A 500-Pound Meteor Lit Up the Pittsburgh Sky Last Night

NASA report that it observed a 500 - quid meteor , around two - feet in diameter , which zipped through the Earth ’s aura above Pittsburgh last night . If you were in the vicinity , you may well have just noticed it .

The lummox of rock-and-roll glide by by at about 45,000 mile per hour . While it fell from visibility at an elevation of 13 mil , scientists predict that fragments in all probability fell to the primer east of Kittanning , PA . The video recording above was captured by one of the smutty - and - white cameras that makes up NASA ’s ‘ All Sky Fireball web . ’ Set up by the Meteoroid Environment Office , it ’s a serial of cameras direct up the Nox sky across the country , found in school and other public spaces , that are put in place to tape occurrences just like this . Clearly , it ’s working ! [ NASAviaVerge ]

telecasting by NASA / Bill Cooke

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