Nasa: Meteor soars over Statue of Liberty, burns up above Manhattan – Times of India
A meteor soared over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, according to Nasa. The space rock passed through the atmosphere over the Big Apple around 11:15am, coinciding with reports from New Yorkers who saw a flash of fire streak across the sky and felt the ground lightly shaking beneath their feet.The "daylight fireball" traveled from the Statue of Liberty to Midtown Manhattan around noon. Twenty people across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut reported seeing the fireball stretch across the sky, with one witness describing the shooting star as illuminated in green, yellow, and white, a New York Post report said.The spectacle lasted about 30 seconds before fragmenting into three pieces, according to an eyewitness repor...