{"id":305,"date":"2006-06-10T07:35:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T07:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/10\/falling-rock-zone\/"},"modified":"2006-06-10T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T07:35:24","slug":"falling-rock-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/10\/falling-rock-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Rock Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/view.php?StoryID=20060609-050952-4406r\">Large meteorite hits northern Norway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> A large meteorite struck in northern Norway this week, landing with an impact an astronomer compared to the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima. <\/p>\n<p>The meteorite appeared as a ball of fire just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, visible across several hundred miles in the sunlit summer sky above the Arctic Circle, Aftenposten reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite bit of the (very short) story is this living-in-the-future moment, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Peter Bruvold, a farmer, said he happened to be out in the fields with a camera because he was tending a foaling mare and he photographed the fireball.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only do shepherds watch their flocks by night, it appears they now take pictures of them as well.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/mmcirvin.livejournal.com\/320070.html\">Matt McIrvin<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/372037.html\">James Nicoll<\/a>, my go-to sources for stuff from outside the atmosphere.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large meteorite hits northern Norway: A large meteorite struck in northern Norway this week, landing with an impact an astronomer compared to the atomic bomb used at Hiroshima. The meteorite appeared as a ball of fire just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, visible across several hundred miles in the sunlit summer sky above the Arctic Circle,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/10\/falling-rock-zone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falling Rock Zone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,33,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-in_the_news","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}