{"id":790726,"date":"2024-10-30T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790726"},"modified":"2024-10-30T03:59:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:59:01","slug":"bright-fireball-illuminates-skies-over-wellington-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790726","title":{"rendered":"Bright fireball illuminates skies over Wellington, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>A bright fireball was observed over the skies of New Zealand on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at around 07:53 UTC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMS event #6399-2024 caught from Wellington NZ\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTEo5qlDock?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p> A bright fireball was seen over Canterbury, Hawke\u2019s Bay, \u00a0Manawat\u016b-Whanganui, Marlborough, and Wellington on Sunday at around 07:53 UTC.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society received 35 reports of the fireball\u2019s sighting and designated it event number 6399-2024.<\/p>\n<p>The duration of the observation varied across different locations with the longest lasting for around 7.5 seconds, and the shortest lasting less than a second.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball produced no sound and had a magnitude varying between -5 and -18 across different locations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wellington, New Zealand fireball on October  27, 2024 \u2013 heatmap and trajectory. Credit: AMS, Google<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Fireball event 6399-2024 \u2013AMS\u2013 Accessed on October 29, 2024<\/p>\n<p><!-- MOLONGUI AUTHORSHIP PLUGIN 4.9.7 --><br \/>\n<!-- https:\/\/www.molongui.com\/wordpress-plugin-post-authors --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2024\/10\/30\/wellington-fireball-new-zealand-october-2024\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright fireball was observed over the skies of New Zealand on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at around 07:53 UTC. A bright fireball was seen over Canterbury, Hawke\u2019s Bay, \u00a0Manawat\u016b-Whanganui,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790726","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=790726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/790727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}