Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office said that the bolide ultimately burst about 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, producing a shockwave as powerful as the blast of 20 tons of TNT, reported The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina.
Fireball seen in Southeast sky produced by meteor
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This highly variable shower may result in anywhere from 20 to 60 visible meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions, said NASA's Bill Cooke.
Moonlight may obstruct views of the Orionid meteor shower, debris of Halley's comet
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