AI Summary

The sonic booms produced by meteors can release a significant amount of energy, equivalent to hundreds of tons of TNT. Meteors, fragments of asteroids or comets, enter Earth's atmosphere and encounter resistance, generating intense heat and friction. This interaction causes the meteor to rapidly accelerate and produce a shockwave, resulting in the sonic boom. The energy released by these sonic booms is a direct result of the meteor's rapid deceleration as it interacts with the atmosphere, converting its kinetic energy into sound waves.

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