Giant Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Northwest U.S.

John Roach

for National Geographic News

February 21, 2008

Excerpt:

A meteor zipped across the U.S. Pacific Northwest sky early Tuesday morning before exploding, possibly littering eastern Oregon with marble- to basketball-size space rocks, an expert says.

Impact sites are yet to be found, according to Richard Pugh, a scientist with the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University in Oregon.

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