{"id":1812,"date":"2013-02-19T22:24:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2013-02-19T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:24:32","slug":"space-rock-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2013\/02\/space-rock-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Great Ball of Fire&#8221; Space Rock 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about rocking the house! A 10,000 ton rock from space roused about 1000 houses when it exploded over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk early in the morning of February 15th. It may have arrived on planet Earth a few hours late for Valentines Day, but not because it wasn&#8217;t trying. Travelling at over 30,000 miles per hour, that rock was definitely in a hurry to get here!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1821\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Russia_Meteor_explosion_52642.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1821    \" title=\"Early on February 15, 2013 a meteor streaked through the Russian sky with a brilliant flash and a supersonic shockwave that blew out more than 4,000 windows.\" src=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Russia_Meteor_explosion_52642-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Russia_Meteor_explosion_52642-300x156.jpg 300w, http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Russia_Meteor_explosion_52642.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Instead of spreading hearts and roses, this express delivery exploded into a brilliant fireball, not so romantically called a &#8216;bolide&#8217;. It blazed across the sky for 30 seconds or so, and then showered its remains across the Siberian plain for children to find in the snow.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1813\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-1813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By ANDREW E. KRAMER Published: February 18, 2013 The New York Times<\/p><\/div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/19\/world\/europe\/russian-scientists-say-they-found-meteorite-fragments.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=0\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1813\" title=\"Sasha Zarezina, 8, showed her find as she dug for meteorites in Deputatskoye, Russia. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about rocking the house! A 10,000 ton rock from space roused about 1000 houses when it exploded over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk early in the morning of February 15th. It may have arrived on planet Earth a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/2013\/02\/space-rock-2013\/\">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":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth","category-meteors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janepeddicord.com\/spaceblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}