Big Bang

During the early hours of Wednesday morning, around 4 A.M., a fireball appeared in the sky above Mexico City, followed by a loud boom.

(image taken from the internet)

Both Alejandro and I slept through it, but his sister Sandra was wakened.  She said that the windows of the house rattled from the explosion.

The next morning the news reported that a meteorite had exploded upon entering the atmosphere.  But a couple of articles that I read said that it was not a meteorite, but rather something called a bolide.  Meteorites are rocks detached from the collision of asteroids.  Bolides are rocks that have been traveling through interplanetary space since the birth of the solar system.

Well, whatever it was, I missed it.