{"id":11789,"date":"2012-04-23T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/04\/23\/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T09:26:14","slug":"did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you hear that big giant meteor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that if you scream in space no one will hear you?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A rare daytime meteor was seen and heard streaking over northern Nevada and parts of California on Sunday, just after the peak of an annual meteor shower.<\/p>\n<p>Observers in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada reported seeing a fireball at about 8 a.m. local time, accompanied or followed by a thunderous clap that experts said could have been a sonic boom from the meteor or the sound of it breaking up high over the Earth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/23\/uk-usa-meteor-idUSLNE83M01220120423\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an animation:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwNXDxurMlk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And now, a bonus question: Why do they call Sparks &#8220;Sparks&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says that if you scream in space no one will hear you? A rare daytime meteor was seen and heard streaking over northern Nevada and parts of California on Sunday, just after the peak of an annual meteor shower. Observers in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada reported seeing a fireball at about 8 a.m. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/did-you-hear-that-big-giant-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did you hear that big giant meteor?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-349","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}