HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — NASA has released a new strewn field map that shows where pieces of an apparent meteor might have fallen following the object breaking apart in the sky on Saturday.
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In an entry on their website, NASA said the event was widely-reported, with eyewitnesses reporting they saw the apparent meteor from as far as Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Rockport.
NASA said that multiple weather radars showed signatures of falling meteorites over a period of about eight minutes following the meteor breaking apart.
According to the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office, the event was caused by an infall of a meteoroid that weighed about a ton and was originally three feet across.
“The resulting fireball released an amount of energy equivalent to 26 tons of TNT into the atmosphere,” the NASA entry stated. “Most of the mass of an object like this is reduced to atoms and fine droplets during the fireball, and only a few percent of the total mass survives to reach the ground, scattered across a range of meteorite sizes.”
NASA also released a map indicating where potential pieces of the meteor may have landed, with the map showing parts of Montgomery County and north Harris County.
NASA released a strewn field map illustrating a simplified estimate of where meteorites landed, according to the agency.
NASA
According to the agency, the map depicts a simplified estimate of where meteorites might have landed. In the map, dark red is where 10kg meteorites could have landed, if they were produced, followed by 1kg in red, 100g in dark orange, 10g in light orange, and then 1g in yellow.
In the statement, NASA advised the public to be mindful of private property and not trespass while searching for meteorites.
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