Everything's bigger in Texas: Fireball blaze roams through sky - New York Post
According to NASA Meteor Watch, the celestial spectacle passed overhead just before 9 p.m“Hundreds of eyewitnesses in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma report seeing a very bright fireball last night at 8:58 PM Central Daylight Time,” the agency said in a Facebook post on Monday“Analysis of their reports, combined with information obtained from a couple of videos from public/amateur cameras, shows that the meteor was first seen 48 miles above Texas Highway 11, between Sulphur Springs and Winnsboro
“The fireball was at least as bright as a quarter moon, which translates to something bigger than 6 inches in diameter with a weight of 10 poundsFireballs are a common occurrence and NASA has programs devoted to tracking the exceptionally bright meteors