{"id":26581,"date":"2025-07-23T04:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26581"},"modified":"2025-07-23T04:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:56:16","slug":"26581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26581","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2507\/MeteorMilkyWay_Rice_960.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Have you ever seen a fireball? In astronomy, a fireball is a very bright meteor &#8212; one at least as bright as Venus and possibly brighter than even a full Moon. Fireballs are rare &#8212; if you see one you are likely to remember it for your whole life. Physically, a fireball is a small rock that originated from an asteroid or comet that typically leaves a fading smoke trail of gas and dust as it shoots through the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. It is unlikely that any single large ground strike occurred &#8212; much of the rock likely vaporized as it broke up into many small pieces. The featured picture was captured last week from a deadwood beach in Cape San Blas, Florida, USA. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap250723.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever seen a fireball? In astronomy, a fireball is a very bright meteor &#8212; one at least as bright as Venus and possibly brighter than even a full <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26581\" 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-26581","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\/26581","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=26581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26582,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions\/26582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}