NASA strewn field map shows where pieces of apparent meteor might have landed in Harris, Montgomery Counties

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) – NASA has released a sparse new field map showing where pieces of the apparent meteorite may have fallen after the object crashed into the sky on Saturday.

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in Go to their websiteNASA said the event received widespread coverage, with eyewitnesses reporting seeing the apparent meteor from as far away as Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and Rockport.

NASA said that several weather radars showed signs of meteorites falling over a period of about eight minutes after the meteorite split.

According to NASA’s Office of the Meteorite Environment, the event was caused by the fall of a meteorite that weighed about a ton and was originally three feet across.

“The resulting fireball released an amount of energy equivalent to 26 tons of TNT into the atmosphere,” the NASA entry stated. “Most of the mass of an object like this is reduced to tiny atoms and droplets during the fireball, and only a small percentage of the total mass survives to reach Earth, scattered across a range of meteorite sizes.”

NASA also released a map indicating where possible pieces of the meteorite may have landed, and the map shows parts of Montgomery County and northern Harris County.

According to the agency, the map depicts a simplified estimate of where meteorites are likely to fall. In the map, dark red is where 10kg of meteorites would have landed, if they were produced, followed by 1kg in red, 100g in dark orange, 10g in light orange, and then 1g in yellow.

In the statement, NASA advised the public to respect private property and not to trespass on the property of others while searching for meteorites.