NASA: Minivan-size meteor over California weighed 75 tons

The photo taken in Reno shows the fireball from the meteor as it burned up while traveling east to west.
Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office estimates the object was about the size of a minivan, but weighed around 154,300 pounds, or more than 75 tons.
“An event of this size might happen about once a year,” says Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. “But most of them occur over the ocean or in an uninhabited area, so getting to see one is something special.”