Possible meteorite crashes into Houston area home, officials say

A imaginable meteorite crashed into a Houston country location connected Saturday night, tearing done the extortion and 2 stories of the home, officials said. 

Ponderosa Fire Chief Fred Windisch told CBS News that what "appears to beryllium a meteorite" crashed done a woman's house, landing successful the kitchen. Windisch said the meteorite was a small bigger than his hand. Ponderosa Forest is simply a suburb successful northbound Houston. 

NASA said successful a social media post that the meteor became disposable astatine 49 miles supra Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, astatine 4:40 p.m. section time. The meteor moved southeast astatine 35,000 miles per hour, breaking isolated 29 miles supra Bammel, conscionable westbound of Cypress Station, NASA said. 

"The fragmentation of the meteor - which weighed astir a ton with a diameter of 3 feet - created a unit question that caused booms heard by immoderate successful the area," NASA said successful the post.

Across the Houston area, residents described proceeding a low, rumbling dependable that galore compared to thunder, adjacent though the skies were clear, according to CBS affiliate KHOU.

Earlier this week, an asteroid weighing astir 7 tons and traveling astatine 45,000 mph traveled implicit aggregate states. 

And past June, a agleam meteor was seen crossed the southeastern U.S. and exploded implicit Georgia, creating akin booms heard by residents successful the area.

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