A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered by a local meteorite hunter. The 3-foot meteor splintered in the air in ...

The meteor, an asteroidal fragment with a diameter of three feet and weighing over a ton, disintegrated 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, releasing energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT, NASA said.

Videos show the meteor fireballing as it fell to Earth, producing a bright green light. The NWS in Tallahassee, which covers North Florida, Southeast Alabama and Southwest Georgia, tweeted about ...

The Perseid Meteor Shower peaks Saturday, Aug. 12, after dark into the morning of Sunday, Aug. 13. But either night this weekend should have overall good viewing conditions in north Georgia.

Ground track of meteor's path on May 20, 2011 over Macon, Georgia. (Image credit: NASA via Google) When it entered the atmosphere, the comet chunk was traveling northwest at about 86,000 mph ...

News Rare meteor event, an ‘earthgrazer,’ occurred over Georgia and Alabama, NASA says Published: Nov. 12, 2021, 3:51 p.m.