As if the world couldn't get any weirder, scarier or stranger right now, a meteor shower is hovering over the country from now until December 14.
And it's packing a sonic boom.
Listen to a caller to the Karsch and Anderson show describe above what it sounded like in his neck in the woods. The boom could be heard across several states, including Michigan, Virginia and upstate New York. CBS News said there were 150 reports of a visible fireball that accompanied the sound.
Robert Lunsford, a "fireball report coordinator" with the American Meteor Society, said the boom was produced by a "large and durable" meteor blowing up over Syracuse, NY, that reverberated across a swath of the United States.
"Normally meteors completely disintegrate while they're high in the atmosphere," Lunsford explained to Gothamist. "If they can survive down far enough where atmosphere can carry sound waves, you can hear a sonic boom."
What he's talking about is the Geminid meteor shower is known to be one of the most dazzling astronomical shows of the year and it will peak on the night of Dec. 13 into the early morning hours of Dec. 14. It's so highly anticipated because of the extra dark skies that happen this time of year.
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