{"id":675103,"date":"2026-03-23T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:14:13","slug":"will-there-be-more-meteors-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675103\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be more meteors in Houston?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you looked up at the sky over Houston on March 21, you might\u2019ve seen something unforgettable: a bright streak, maybe even a flash.<\/p>\n

Now, if you didn\u2019t see it, maybe you heard and felt it. a quick sonic boom rattled homes across southeast Texas. <\/p>\n

WHERE IT LANDED:<\/b> Here\u2019s what Houston neighborhoods might have meteorites on the ground!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

As we now know, it wasn\u2019t just a shooting star, it was a bolide! <\/p>\n

A bolide is a supercharged meteor\u2014bigger, brighter, and comes with an explosion that can lead to an audible sound\u2014yes, the kind that people reported hearing across Houston Saturday. <\/p>\n

When can you spot meteor again?<\/b><\/p>\n

While meteors enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere every day, they rarely turn into bolides. It may be a while before Space City sees or hear something like this again, but you can also get a peek into space throughout the year. <\/p>\n

Houston can look up to the sky on April 21 for the Lyrid meteor shower. It won\u2019t bring a bang, but it will bring 10-18 meteors per hour and maybe a few bright fireballs. <\/p>\n

While most cameras were looking up at the 2012 peak of the Lyrid meteor shower, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station trained his video camera on Earth below. Footage from that night is now revealing breathtaking images of Earth at night with meteors burning up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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