{"id":363293,"date":"2017-08-23T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6e2b56d4faf27a8d9b31776c2537af63"},"modified":"2017-08-23T10:30:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T14:30:03","slug":"heres-the-blueprint-for-a-global-fireball-observatory-and-why-we-need-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=363293","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the blueprint for a global fireball observatory &ndash; and why we need one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bright shooting stars are one of nature&#8217;s great wonders. Like the one in the main image, which was visible from Devon in the south-west of England in June, these fireballs are caused by space rocks hitting Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The friction forces them to slow down, producing a tremendous amount of heat at the same time. If the rock is big enough, a fragment will survive this fiery transition and fall to Earth as a meteorite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright shooting stars are one of nature&#8217;s great wonders. Like the one in the main image, which was visible from Devon in the south-west of England in June, these fireballs are caused by space rocks hitting Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. The friction forces them t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363294,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363293\/revisions\/363294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}