Event: 20211111-021141

At 9:11 PM Eastern Standard Time on November 10, 2021 (2021 November 11, 02:11 UTC) - just a few minutes after the Crew-3 Falcon 9 rocket lifted off the pad at KSC - hundreds of skywatchers along the east coast reported seeing a bright fireball. Analysis of the eyewitness accounts posted on the American Meteor Society website, combined with data from a NASA camera located in western North Carolina and other publicly accessible videos indicate that the meteor first became visible 48 miles above Greenville, North Carolina. Moving northwest at 33,000 miles per hour, it survived only 3.5 seconds before disintegrating 28 miles above Macclesfield. At its brightest, the fireball rivaled the Full Moon, suggesting it was caused by an object roughly 45 pounds in weight and 10 inches in diameter. The low speed implies an asteroidal origin.

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