\"I thought the dinosaurs was coming back for us.\"Southern Heat<\/p>\n
More than 30 people in three Southern states reported seeing a bright fireball shooting through the sky Thursday morning. According to a Facebook post from local emergency management services in Mississippi, it was followed by a loud boom as well.<\/p>\n
The Claiborne County EMA post said the fireball was a meteor about a foot in diameter that weighed about 90 lbs.<\/p>\n
[It] generated an energy equivalent of three tons of TNT, which created shock waves, the post said.<\/p>\n
According to an Associated Press report, one resident said the object was about the size of a basketball in the sky. Under a post about the meteor made on Mississippis statewide emergency management office, residents shared photos of what they saw overhead.<\/p>\n
I saw this on my way home, one commenter responded. I thought the dinosaurs was coming back for us.<\/p>\n
The timing is striking thats the same day scientists had said last week that a huge asteroid the size of the Empire State Building would narrowly miss hitting Earth. According to a Live Science post about the asteroid that nearly made impact, it only skimmed by our planet at a planetary hairs breadth of 2 million miles away.<\/p>\n
The difference between a meteor and an asteroid lies in whether the chunk is orbiting the Sun or streaming towards Earths surface. NASA says car-sized meteor hits Earths atmosphere and burns up pretty much every year, so the one sighted yesterday was certainly smaller and hardly a threat no matter where it came from.<\/p>\n
More on dinosaurs coming back for us: Humans Causing Worst Ocean Extinction Event Since Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs<\/p>\n
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