{"id":405318,"date":"2017-11-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=438a6ce6213c81afee9808abd04f4a19"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T13:00:00","slug":"a-meteoroid-as-seen-from-the-space-station-make-a-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=405318","title":{"rendered":"A meteoroid as seen from the Space Station\u2026 make a wish!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA series of night-time photos were taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 5 November around 22:33 GMT, here shown in a time-lapse with a 1-second interval, while the Space Station was flying from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n

\nPaolo was lucky enough to capture a fast fireball falling to Earth over the Atlantic Ocean, off the South Africa west coast — look closely between 00:07 and 00:08 seconds at upper right in this video.\n<\/p>\n

\nA fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural \u201cspace rock\u201d — entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of around 40 km\/s, according to experts working on near-Earth objects (NEOs) in ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme.\n<\/p>\n

\n"This speed is actually quite fast for meteoroids, which typically enter the atmosphere at around 20 km\/s," says R\u00fcdiger Jehn, SSA NEO segment co-manager.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli in currently working and living on board the International Space Station as part of the Italian Space Agency\u2019s long duration VITA mission.\n<\/p>\n

Follow the VITA mission: http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/VITAmission\/<\/a>
Connect with Paolo via http:\/\/paolonespoli.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nA series of night-time photos were taken by ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli on 5 November around 22:33 GMT, here shown in a time-lapse with a 1-second interval, while the Space Station was flying from the southern Atlantic Ocean over to Kazakhstan.\n<\/p>\n

\nPaolo was lucky enough to capture a fast fireball falling to Earth over the Atlantic Ocean, off the South Africa west coast — look closely between 00:07 and 00:08 seconds at upper right in this video.\n<\/p>\n

\nA fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural “space rock” — entering Earth’s atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of around 40 km\/s, according to experts working on near-Earth objects (NEOs) in ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme.\n<\/p>\n

\n“This speed is actually quite fast for meteoroids, which typically enter the atmosphere at around 20 km\/s,” says Rüdiger Jehn, SSA NEO segment co-manager.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli in currently working and living on board the International Space Station as part of the Italian Space Agency’s long duration VITA mission.\n<\/p>\n

Follow the VITA mission: http:\/\/blogs.esa.int\/VITAmission\/<\/a>
Connect with Paolo via http:\/\/paolonespoli.esa.int<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405318","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405319,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405318\/revisions\/405319"}],"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=405318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}