A meteor crashing toward Earth exploded over the north-eastern United States on Saturday with a blast equivalent to 300 tons of TNT., NASA said. The fireball broke up over northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire just after 2pm (1806 GMT), the US space agency’s deputy news chief Jennifer Dooren told AFP in a statement. NASA Space Alerts tweeted: "Eyewitnesses in New England and @NOAA ’s GOES-19 satellite reported a bright fireball on Saturday, May 30, at 2:06 p.m EDT