{"id":12489,"date":"2017-11-17T05:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2017-11-17T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T05:56:35","slug":"major-fireball-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12489","title":{"rendered":"Major Fireball Meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1711\/meteor2017event4299_Taylor.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista. Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain pass on November 14. Below lies the village of La Villa, Alta Badia in Italy&#8217;s Dolomite Alps. Above the nestled village lights, the constellation Ursa Major hangs over the northern horizon. But most stunning is the intense fireball meteor. It was captured during the camera&#8217;s exposure by chance as it flashed east to west across the northern horizon, under Ursa Major&#8217;s familiar Big Dipper asterism. In fact, sightings of this major fireball meteor were widely reported in European skies, the most reported fireball event ever for planet Earth&#8217;s American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Organization. The meteor&#8217;s measured track over Germany is consistent with its origin near the active radiant of November&#8217;s Taurid Meteor Shower. Taurid meteors are associated with dust from Encke&#8217;s comet. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2yQ2HKV\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista. Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=12489\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-12489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12490,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}