Meteorite confirmed by NASA as cause for ‘ground-rattling blast’ in Texas

A flash in the sky that sent residents of the Lower Rio Grande Valley into a panic Wednesday afternoon was confirmed to be a meteor. Questions regarding the “fireball” that created a “loud explosion” were finally answered when officials in South Texas announced confirmation of a meteorite strike, AccuWeather reports. “We believe we’ve solved the mystery of the loud explosion,” Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said in a news conference Thursday. According to NASA experts, at 5:28 pm on February 15, a meteor measuring roughly 2 feet across and weighing...