{"id":776947,"date":"2024-02-12T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776947"},"modified":"2024-02-12T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T12:28:52","slug":"fireball-over-germany-created-by-asteroid-2024-bx1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=776947","title":{"rendered":"Fireball over Germany created by asteroid 2024 BX1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>In the late eventing of 20 January 2024, astronomer Kriszti\u00e1n S\u00e1rneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with Earth. Just hours later, it struck our planet\u2019s atmosphere 50 km west of Berlin, producing this stunning fireball at 01:32 CET, Sunday 21 January. Later named 2024 BX1, this is just the eighth asteroid that humankind has spotted before impact.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the rapid response and information sharing from Earth\u2019s asteroid and fireball communities, including ESA\u2019s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre, many people were able to see and record this spectacular sight, despite it taking place with just hours\u2019 notice and in the middle of the night. This video was captured by the\u00a0AllSky7 network.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireball over Germany created by asteroid 2024 BX1\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/goWCB0gx54E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/01\/Fireball_over_Germany_created_by_asteroid_2024_BX1?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late eventing of 20 January 2024, astronomer Kriszti\u00e1n S\u00e1rneczky detected an asteroid on an imminent collision course with Earth. Just hours later, it struck our planet\u2019s atmosphere 50&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":776948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776947","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\/776947","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/776948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}