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Officials say a 60-pound meteor that streaked across the skies over Northeast Alabama about 9:44 p.m. on May 18 could have come down near Scottsboro.
The meteor could have broken up as it neared the ground but sizable pieces probably made impact, said Dr. Bill Cooke, head of the NASA meteoroid environment office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Meteor Caught on tape over Huntsville and Scottsboro

On May 18th, NASA cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Centre and  Walker County Science Centre near Chickamauga, Georgia tracked the entry of a large meteor estimated to weigh some 60 pounds over northeastern Alabama.
This meteor was first picked up at an altitude of 47 miles over northwest Huntsville, moving at a speed of 8 miles per second towards the southeast. It was last visible northeast of Gurley at an altitude of 23 miles.
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