--- title: Watch a Meteor Burn Up In A Fiery Ball Above Pennsylvania description: A 500-pound meteor flared up over Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning canonical: https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-18T16:05:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:30:45.153Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch a Meteor Burn Up In A Fiery Ball Above Pennsylvania og:description: A 500-pound meteor flared up over Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning og:url: https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Meteor Burn Up In A Fiery Ball Above Pennsylvania twitter:description: A 500-pound meteor flared up over Pennsylvania on Tuesday morning twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Meteor Burn Up in a Fiery Ball Over Pennsylvania by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 18, 2015 4:05 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Feb 18, 2015 4:05 PM UTC A meteor burned up in the atmosphere over the skies of Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York Tuesday morning, lighting up in a flare that was reportedly brighter than the full moon. Dr. William Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA confirmed that a meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over western Pennsylvania around 4:50am, the [local NBC affiliate](http://www.wfmj.com/category/83320/about-us) reports. It originated from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The 500-pound meteor moved east at a speed of 45,000 miles per hour, but cameras lost track of it 13 miles above the town of Kittanning, Pa., east of Pittsburgh. “There is a good chance of small fragments lying on the ground just to the east of Kittanning,” Cooke said. \[[_WFMJ_](http://www.wfmj.com/category/83320/about-us)\] _Read next:_ [_Towering Plume Spotted on Mars Remains a Mystery_](http://time.com/3712059/mars-mystery-plume/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/"},"headline":"Watch a Meteor Burn Up in a Fiery Ball Over Pennsylvania","datePublished":"2015-02-18T16:05:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:30:45.153Z","description":"The fiery meteor likely left pieces of space rock scattered around western Pennsylvania, scientists say","url":"https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/","keywords":["Space","astronomy"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3713357/meteor-pennsylvania/","name":"Watch a Meteor Burn Up in a Fiery Ball Over Pennsylvania"}}]}] ```