The meteor was first sighted 48 miles above northwestern Arizona, traveling at 30,500 miles per hour.
"The object managed to survive traveling over 42 miles through the upper atmosphere before breaking up 28 miles above Boulder City in southern Nevada. The meteor had two major fragmentation events, as the videos show two very bright flares near the end of its trajectory,"."The fireball was brighter than the Full Moon, which means it was caused by an asteroidal fragment weighing at least 70 pounds and greater than a foot in diameter.
The Orionids meteor shower has already reached its peak activity, but stargazers can still see the light show until Nov. 22. A spacecraft named DART crashed into an asteroid Monday to learn how to divert potentially deadly celestial bodies.