Meteors are 'extremely common.' What makes the one over New England 'rare'? Phys.org Meteor as heavy as an elephant causes widespread speculation CP24 On a Saturday afternoon in May 2026, a rock about three feet across hit the atmosphere over New England at 75,000 mph and broke apart with the energy of roughly 300 tons of TNT, and the boom carried from Delaware to Montreal, farther than any fragment e Space Daily Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of