NY – A meteor crossed the horizon of New York City before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, the agency reported. POT.
William Cooke, director of the Meteoroid Environments Office of the space agency, said the meteor was first seen on Tuesday at an altitude of 51 miles above Manhattan, around 11:17 in the morning.
The meteor It passed over the southern part of Newark, New Jersey, before disintegrating. 31 miles above the town of Mountainside, he said. No meteorites or pieces of space debris reached the planet’s surface.
The space rock traveled to a speed of 41,000 miles per hour and descended at a relatively sharp angle of 44 degrees from vertical, Cooke said.
Its exact trajectory is unknown, as reports are based solely on witness accounts and no camera or satellite data is currently available.he pointed.
On Wednesday morning, they had presented themselves approximately 40 eyewitness reports on the American Meteor Society’s website, which the agency used to generate its calculations, Cooke said.
The meteor was not part of the shower of Perseid starsand reports of loud bangs could be explained by the proximity of military aircraft in the vicinity around the time of their appearance, he said.
Cooke noted that in the New York City area, a daytime meteor can be seen every one to two years.
NASA’s Meteoroid Environments office said in a Facebook post that Small rocks like the one that produced Tuesday’s meteor measure about a foot in diameter and cannot remain intact all the way to land..