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A possible meteorite reportedly struck a house in Ponderosa Forest, north of Houston, Texas, on Saturday, March 21, damaging the roof and passing through two stories of the structure, according to local officials.<\/p>\n
NASA confirmed that a bright fireball crossed the Houston area at around 21:40 UTC on March 21. However, as of March 22, no publicly available laboratory analysis had confirmed that the object recovered from the Ponderosa Forest home was a meteorite.<\/p>\n
The disintegration of the asteroidal fragment \u2014 estimated to weigh about 1 ton, with a diameter of approximately 0.9 m (3 feet) \u2014 released energy equivalent to 26 tons of TNT, according to NASA.<\/p>\n
This generated a pressure wave that propagated to the ground, producing sonic booms reported by residents in the area. Doppler weather radar detected debris signatures consistent with meteorites falling between Willowbrook and Northgate Crossing.<\/p>\n