{"id":3038,"date":"2013-02-15T13:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T13:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2013-02-15T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T17:40:07","slug":"huge-meteorite-hit-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3038","title":{"rendered":"Huge Meteorite Hit in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/story\/13\/02\/15\/1229253\/huge-meteor-blazes-across-sky-over-russia-hundreds-injured?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\">It<\/a> certainly is as bright as day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7c-0iwBEswE\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/interactive\/2013\/feb\/15\/meteorite-fall-map\" target=\"_blank\">Meteorite hits<\/a> are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/sciencefair\/2013\/02\/15\/skyfall-asteroid-flyby-russian-meteor\/1922415\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+usatoday-NewsTopStories+%28News+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target=\"_blank\">rare<\/a>, 5 to 10 times a year. The last large one was in 2008, exploded over Sudan. The largest known one in this era was 1908's <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\" target=\"_blank\">Tunguska Event<\/a> in Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/02\/15\/why-are-there-so-many-dash-cam-videos-of-the-meteor\/?wprss=rss_world\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0It is also noted<\/a>, that with so many videos recorded for this meteorite, it is a curious question as to why there are so many dashboard cameras in Russian motor vehicles. The answer was to prove the guilty party in the event of an accident...and I thought a church member of mine was a little too paranoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It certainly is as bright as day. Meteorite hits are rare, 5 to 10 times a year. The last large one was in 2008, exploded over Sudan. The largest known one in this era was 1908's Tunguska Event in Russia. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3038\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}