Meteor Lights Inland Northwest Skies, Captured on Security Cameras Before 5 a.m.
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Updated · KXLY Spokane · Aug 14
Meteor Lights Inland Northwest Skies, Captured on Security Cameras Before 5 a.m.
3 articles · Updated · KXLY Spokane · Aug 14
Summary
Security-camera footage from Spokane, Post Falls, Clarkston and other Inland Northwest communities showed a bright meteor streaking across the sky early Friday.
Videos poured in before dawn as the object burned through Earth's atmosphere, briefly lighting the dark sky across parts of Washington and Idaho.
Later reporting identified the fireball as an asteroid fragment about 16 inches wide and 170 pounds that traveled 36 miles at 33,000 mph before breaking apart.
NASA said the object was unrelated to the Perseids shower and released energy equal to about 10 tons of TNT, with more than 250 sightings reported across the Pacific Northwest.