A meteor lighting up the cold night sky in Michigan, midwestern US, has been captured travelling northwest across the US.
NASA Meteor Watch confirmed the fireball was a slow-moving meteor from a space rock, nearly a metre long, that had burnt up upon entering the Earth's atmosphere.
"Our analysis yields a similar result, and we have calculated that this was a very slow moving meteor - speed of about 28,000 miles per hour (45,000kmph)," the NASA Facebook post read.
"This fact, combined with the brightness of the meteor (which suggests a fairly big space rock at least a yard across), shows that the object penetrated deep into the atmosphere before it broke apart (which produced the sounds heard by many observers)."
The USGS earthquake's hazard program recorded a 2.0 earthquake in Michigan most likely related to the meteor.
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