{"id":791732,"date":"2024-12-04T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791732"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T21:24:02","slug":"double-fireball-event-and-aurora-observed-over-fairbanks-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791732","title":{"rendered":"Double fireball event and aurora observed over Fairbanks, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Two fireballs were observed streaking across the sky over Fairbanks, Alaska, in the early hours of December 1, 2024, accompanied by a green aurora. The two fireball events occurred just two hours apart, creating a rare spectacle for early-morning skywatchers.<\/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 #7398-2024 caught from Fairbanks US\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WlDaaH8cntI?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>Two fireballs were observed over Fairbanks, Alaska, on December 1, with both events recorded by cameras at the Aurora Moose Cottage in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p>The first fireball appeared at approximately 09:56 UTC (00:56 local time), observed over Ester, Fairbanks, as it moved southward against a backdrop of the aurora borealis.<\/p>\n<p>The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received two reports about this event.<\/p>\n<p>The second fireball was observed a few hours later, at approximately 12:56 UTC (03:10 local time), in the same general area.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAuroraMooseLodgeFairbanks%2Fvideos%2F8388569531271395%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Fireball event 7398-2024 \u2013 AMS \u2013 December 1, 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-theme-palette-6-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a889d72b2cb83e7e4b9d113919b99b78\"><em>Featured image credit: Aurora Moose Cottage, Fairbanks, Alaska<\/em><\/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\/12\/04\/double-fireball-event-and-aurora-observed-over-fairbanks-alaska\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two fireballs were observed streaking across the sky over Fairbanks, Alaska, in the early hours of December 1, 2024, accompanied by a green aurora. The two fireball events occurred just&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791732","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\/791732","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=791732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}