💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☄️🏠 On May 30, 2026, a #meteor screaming at nearly 68,000 km/h over #CapeCod released #energy equal to 300 tons of #TNT when it broke apart.

It was one of several recent fireballs tracked by #satellites, doorbell #cameras, and dashcams – our accidental planetary #defense network. University of #Maine planetarium director Shawn Laatsch explains how friction, shock waves, and #sonicbooms work, and why your odds of being hit by a #meteorite are near zero.

👉 https://theconversation.com/sonic-booms-from-meteors-can-release-the-energy-of-hundreds-of-tons-of-tnt-heres-how-they-work-284923

#astronomy #physics #science #massachusetts #asteroids #atmosphere #nasa #solarsystem