{"id":23388,"date":"2024-07-17T09:56:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=23388"},"modified":"2024-07-17T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:56:52","slug":"meteor-soars-over-manhattan-statue-of-liberty-as-new-yorkers-report-shaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2024\/07\/meteor-soars-over-manhattan-statue-of-liberty-as-new-yorkers-report-shaking","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Soars Over Manhattan, Statue of Liberty As New Yorkers Report Shaking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to NASA, a meteor soared over the Statue of Liberty before crumbling about 30 miles above Midtown Manhattan. The space rock passed through the atmosphere over the Big Apple around 11:15 a.m., the same time New Yorkers reported seeing a flash of fire streak across the sky and felt the ground slightly shaking under their feet. Twenty people across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut reported seeing the fireball stretch across the sky, with one person saying the shooting star was illuminated yellow, green and white.<\/p>\n

The speeding spectacle lasted for almost 30 seconds before fragmenting into three pieces, the eyewitnesses wrote to the American Meteor Society. NASA\u2019s Meteor Watch believes that the \u201cdaylight fireball\u201d was first spotted about 40 miles above New York Harbor\u2019s Upper Bay, where the Statue of Liberty stands. Moving at a rate of 34,000 miles per hour, \u201cthe meteor descended at a steep angle of just 18 degrees from vertical, passing over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating 29 miles above midtown Manhattan,\u201d\u00a0NASA\u00a0<\/a>wrote in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n