How would a transformer look like, when entering the Earth’s Airspace? Just like a fireball right?
NASA received numerous reports concerning a bright fireball spotted over Georgia at 5:33 PM CST on 18 December. All 6 NASA all sky meteor cameras in the Southeast picked up the meteor at an altitude of 50 miles above the town of Georgia (SE of Atlanta).
From its brightness, it is estimated that this piece of an asteroid weighed at least 150 pounds and was over 16 inches in diameter. It entered the atmosphere at a steep angle and moved almost due south at a speed of 29,000 miles per hour. Yeah right! An asteroid!
The NASA cameras tracked it to an altitude of 17 miles above the town of Locust Grove, where it had slowed to a speed of 9000 miles per hour, at which point the meteor ceased producing light by burning up. It is possible that fragments of this object survived to reach the ground as meteorites.
NASA even caught the asteroid on camera!