Quote:Three roofs.
On March 8, a meteorite punched through the roof of a house in Koblenz, Germany.
On March 17, a 7-ton asteroid detonated over Cleveland, Ohio, with the force of 250 tons of TNT. Fragments rained across Medina County. NASA codenamed the event “Chicken Little.”
On March 21, a meteorite tore through the roof of Sherrie James’s home in Spring, Texas. It penetrated the ceiling, bounced off the floor, ricocheted back into the ceiling, and landed near a television. Her grandson found the hole. The Ponderosa Fire Department recovered a football-sized rock with a black exterior from the upstairs bedroom.
Three structures hit by space rock. Thirteen days. Two continents.
Quote:March 15. Pickerington, Ohio. Same night, different continent. A fireball with an audible sonic boom caught on a doorbell camera outside Columbus. Dozens of social media reports.
March 17. Cleveland, Ohio. The big one. NASA event designation 20260317-125642. Internal codename: Chicken Little. A 7-ton asteroid, six feet in diameter, enters above Lake Erie at 45,000 mph. Travels 34 miles through the upper atmosphere. Detonates 30 miles above Valley City with energy equivalent to 250 tons of TNT. One-sixth the yield of the smallest nuclear weapon ever used in combat. Sonic boom heard from Illinois to Virginia. Registered on seismographs. Detected by GOES-19 from geostationary orbit. Over 200 AMS witness reports across 14 states and Ontario. Meteorite fragments confirmed on the ground. First recovery: a 10-gram achondrite with a glassy black fusion crust, found by Roberto Vargas in Medina County on March 18. Tentatively classified as a eucrite.
We will come back to that word. It changes the origin story.
March 21. Houston, Texas. A one-ton asteroid, three feet in diameter, enters above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston. Moves southeast at 35,000 mph. Breaks apart 29 miles above Bammel, near Cypress Station. Energy release: 26 tons of TNT. Sonic boom across the greater Houston metro. 149 AMS reports within hours. NASA Doppler radar confirms meteorites falling between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing. Ponderosa Fire Department responds to Sherrie James’s house in Spring. Fire Captain Tyler Ellingham recovers a football-sized black rock from the upstairs bedroom. It went through the roof, through the ceiling, bounced off the floor, up into the ceiling again, and landed near the TV. Nobody was in the room.
Time to dig an underground shelter ?
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