CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pieces of the meteor that[url HREF="http://preview.abc7chicago.com/science/meteor-spotted-in-chicago-area;-ams-flooded-with-calls/2955229/" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"] lit up the sky earlier this week[/url] were located by meteorite hunters in Michigan on Thursday.[br /][br /]Larry Atkins and Robert Ward set out to find pieces of the meteor very early in the morning. They found pieces on a frozen lake.[br /][Ads /][br /]Atkins has been hunting meteorites for 20 years.[br /][br /]Atkins and Ward will be sending one of the pieces they found to the Field Museum. The museum has a lab to test the composition of meteorites. They also have 13,000 meteorite samples, the fourth most of any place in the world.[br /][br /][media ID="2965271" /][br /][br /]The United States Geological Survey confirmed the meteor that many spotted in the Chicago area Tuesday night. The meteor happened at around 7:10 p.m., according to USGS. It also caused a magnitude 2 earthquake.[br /][br /]"You can have these echoing blasts in the nighttime sky," said Astronomer Mark Hammergren. "And that mass of air pushing down on a wide section of earth is going to cause it to reverberate and produce a signature much like an earthquake."[br /][Ads /][br /]The asteroid that slammed into Earth's atmosphere was probably traveling at 30,000 mph, and only about 1 to 2 feet wide.[br /][br /]The American Meteor Society received about 200 reports of a "fireball meteor" seen over Illinois and other states.[br /][br /]Many posted on social media after having heard and seen what they described as a meteor in the sky.[br /][twitter ID="953449644549398529" /][br /][twitter ID="953448582773911552" /][br /][Ads /][br /][twitter ID="953450877486067712" /][br /][br /]People in Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Pennsylvania also reported seeing the meteor.[br /][br /]Many may remember the meteor that streaked across the Wisconsin sky last February. That one was about 3 feet wide. It broke apart and landed in Michigan.[br /][br /]Although it is rare, Chicago has seen a meteorite recently. The Adler Planetarium has on display the meteorite that crashed into a home in Olympia Fields in 2003, known as the Park Forest Meteor. It was estimated to be about 6 feet wide as it broke up in Earth's atmosphere.