Overview
- NASA says the fireball, which lit the sky around 4:40 p.m. CDT Saturday, came from a meteoroid about a meter wide moving near 35,000 mph.
- The object broke apart high over Bammel, releasing energy near 26 tons of TNT and sending sonic booms across greater Houston.
- Doppler weather radars and GOES satellite sensors tracked falling pieces in a strewn field from Willowbrook toward Northgate Crossing.
- One fragment pierced the roof of a home in the Spring–Ponderosa Forest area, where homeowner Sherrie James called firefighters, and no injuries were reported.
- NASA and the American Meteor Society are refining the path with more than 100 eyewitness reports and are advising searchers to seek permission and handle finds carefully.