Event: 20260615-032626

Hundreds of eyewitnesses in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas have filed reports on the American Meteor Society website of a bright fireball seen on the night of June 14 at 10:26 PM Central Daylight Time (June 15 at 3:26 UTC). The event was also recorded by 3 NASA meteor cameras and many other cameras/phones in the region. An analysis of the available data indicates that the meteor first became visible at an altitude of 60 miles above Tupelo, Mississippi, moving to the northwest at 56,000 miles per hour. It traveled 300 miles through the atmosphere before finally disintegrating 34 miles above the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. At its peak, the fireball was 16 times brighter than the planet Venus. The data suggest that it was caused by a piece of an asteroid about 3 inches in diameter with a weight of about a pound. The object moved too fast and was too small to produce meteorites; it completely disintegrated over Missouri.

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