NASA has confirmed the loud, booming sound heard near Cleveland on Tuesday morning was caused by an asteroid — which was approximately six feet in diameter and weighed roughly seven tons. According to the National Weather Service,

A six-foot, six-ton asteroid passed over northeastern Ohio on March 17, bringing the possibility of fragmented pieces scattered across a wide area.

Northeast Ohio is still buzzing after a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor soared across the sky on Tuesday morning before breaking apart in a "boom" heard across the area.

A meteor caused a loud boom heard across the Ohio Valley on March 17, but a meteor strike in the mid-Atlantic seems unlikely.

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of this event exactly," Steven Sladek said of the meteorite that shook Northeast Ohio on Tuesday.

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A 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents, who feared an explosion.