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A bright fireball over Tokyo explodes with force of 165 tons of TNT, and a soundtrack
A space rock reportedly causes a sonic boom as it crashes into our atmosphere over Japan.
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The skies over Tokyo were lit up by an explosive extraterrestrial object early Thursday morning that also came with a sonic boom, according to some reports.
Videos of the event show a spectacular light with green and purplish hues flying across the sky for just a few seconds at around 2:30 a.m. local time, before the light fizzles out.
"We were able to calculate a source energy of the entering asteroid of about (165 tons or 150 metric tonnes) of TNT," reads an IMO blog post.
Space is scary.