{"id":53525,"date":"2026-03-22T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=53525"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:59:32","slug":"meteor-rumbles-over-houston-as-six-pound-fragment-crashes-into-a-texas-homeutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/22\/meteor-rumbles-over-houston-as-six-pound-fragment-crashes-into-a-texas-homeutm_sourcerss1-0mainlinkanonutm_mediumfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Rumbles Over Houston, as Six-Pound Fragment Crashes Into a Texas Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fhbody-181073818\">\n<div id=\"text-181073818\" class=\"p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t&#8220;It is the talk of the town today \u2014 the loud boom, the flash of light in the sky experienced by a lot of folks across the Houston area this afternoon,&#8221; says a local Texas newscaster.  &#8220;And then there was this \u2014 a home in northwest Harris county hit by something that crashed through their roof.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Travelling at very high speed, the six-pound meteorite crashed through their roof and through their attic, crashing again through the ceiling oF the floor below.  It then bounced off the floor, hit the <em>ceiling<\/em> again \u2014 and then fell onto the bed. <\/p>\n<p>CBS News reports:<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nNASA said in a social media post that the meteor became visible at 49 miles above Stagecoach, northwest of Houston, at 4:40 p.m. local time. The meteor moved southeast at 35,000 miles per hour, breaking apart 29 miles above Bammel, just west of Cypress Station, NASA said.   &#8220;The fragmentation of the meteor \u2014 which weighed about a ton with a diameter of 3 feet \u2014 created a pressure wave that caused booms heard by some in the area,&#8221; NASA said in the post.  Across the Houston area, residents described hearing a low, rumbling sound that many compared to thunder, even though the skies were clear, according to CBS affiliate KHOU.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, an asteroid weighing about 7 tons and traveling at 45,000 mph traveled over multiple states.  And last June, a bright meteor was seen across the southeastern U.S. and exploded over Georgia, creating similar booms heard by residents in the area.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Meteor #Rumbles #Houston #SixPound #Fragment #Crashes #Texas #Home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is the talk of the town today \u2014 the loud boom, the flash of light in the sky experienced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53526,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53525\/revisions\/53526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}