Overview
- The Houston meteorite, which struck a suburban home Saturday, punched through an upstairs roof and left the family unharmed.
- NASA measured a roughly one-ton object entering at about 35,000 miles per hour and breaking up over north Houston with energy near 26 tons of TNT.
- Data place the track beginning near Stagecoach and the breakup over the Bammel area, which produced loud sonic booms heard across the city.
- A Rice University planetary scientist examined the recovered piece and confirmed it is extraterrestrial, describing a golf-ball-size rock that feels unusually heavy.
- The Texas airburst sat between a March 17 fireball over Ohio–Pennsylvania and a March 22 sighting over Chowchilla, California, which NASA says were unrelated routine entries.