A meteor that exploded off the coast of Massachusetts set off a loud boom equivalent to 300 tons of TNT, NASA said.

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The meteorite​ that caused a sonic boom heard throughout Massachusetts on Saturday ​landed "right in the middle of Cape Cod ...

People reported seeing the glowing space rock or hearing or feeling its breakup from Delaware to Montreal. Experts estimate that it was about three feet wide and traveling at 75,000 miles per hour whe ...

Meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at an altitude of 40 miles when it broke apart ...

A meteorite that caused a loud boom when it exploded over Massachusetts Saturday afternoon split into fragments four times larger than most meteorites that fall to Earth, according to NASA.

The New England event came just days after a bright meteor was reported over Western New York during the early morning hours of May 27.

According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it was a "widely felt sonic boom from a suspected bolide".

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