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The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Christian Varady was watching the sky outside his Cantonment home when he saw a color-changing fireball fall into the neighborhood.
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The flash in the Georgia sky in June, described by witnesses as a fireball, traveled hundreds of millions of miles through space before entering the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually crashing into a home. “This one went through a house in McDonough, an the whole mass, we estimate, was probably like the size of a large cherry tomato,” Harris said.
The best meteor shower of the year is already happening in Pennsylvania. While we haven't hit peak viewing yet, the Perseids meteor shower is already streaking across night skies. Perseids viewing guideACTIVE | July 17 to Aug.