Sightings2018

Michigan fireball registers on seismometers

When: 16 Jan 2018
Where: Hamburg Township, MI
Sources: 1 public source

A stone of the Hamburg meteorite, recovered after the January 2018 Michigan fireball Philipp R. Heck et al., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Hundreds of people saw and filmed a bright flash over southeast Michigan. NASA said a small meteoroid exploded with about 10 tons of TNT energy; NOAA's GOES-16 caught the flash and the ground blast registered like a magnitude 2.0 quake.

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OfficialBright Fireball Spotted Over Michigan (opens in a new tab)NASA (Watch the Skies blog) / 2018-01-18

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