Meteor photo released

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration provided this photo taken from the Reno area of the April 22 meteor. The photo is credited to Lisa Warren. The meteor, which was heard across California and Nevada, disintegrated over California’s Central Valley in what the Jet Propulsion Laboratory called the “energy equivalent to a 5-kiloton explosion.”

“Most meteors you see in the night’s sky are the size of tiny stones or even grains of sand, and their trail lasts all of a second or two,” said Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program in Pasadena in a prepared statement. This meteor weighed an estimated 154,300 pounds.