{"id":13623,"date":"2017-12-25T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13623"},"modified":"2017-12-25T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T05:56:08","slug":"fireball-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13623","title":{"rendered":"Fireball in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1712\/ArcticGeminid_Sutie_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Something very bright suddenly lit up the arctic &#8212; what was it? The original idea was to take a series of aurora images that could be made into a time-lapse video. But when night suddenly turned into day, the astrophotographer quickly realized that he was seeing something even more spectacular. Moving through the sky &#8212; in front of the Big Dipper no less &#8212; was a Geminid meteor so bright it could be called a fireball. The meteor brightened and flashed for several seconds as it went. By a stroke of good fortune, the aurora camera was able to capture the whole track. Taken the night after the Geminids Meteor Shower peaked, the astrophotographer&#8217;s location was near Lovozero Lake in Murmansk, Russia, just north of the Arctic Circle. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2kNYpyw\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something very bright suddenly lit up the arctic &#8212; what was it? The original idea was to take a series of aurora images that could be made into a time-lapse <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13623\" 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-13623","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\/13623","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=13623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13624,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13623\/revisions\/13624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}