{"id":27064,"date":"2009-09-07T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/07\/irish-astronomers-help-us-expl\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T23:00:39","slug":"irish-astronomers-help-us-expl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/irish-astronomers-help-us-expl\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Astronomers: Help us explain the &#8220;sky explosion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An Irish astronomy group is calling for help in tracing the origin of a huge explosion in the skies over the country on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomy Ireland said it was currently investigating the explosion, which occurred at 2100 BST.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said the most likely explanation was a space rock or satellite crashing into the atmosphere. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My work here is done.  Details at the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/northern_ireland\/8239188.stm\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Irish astronomy group is calling for help in tracing the origin of a huge explosion in the skies over the country on Thursday evening. Astronomy Ireland said it was currently investigating the explosion, which occurred at 2100 BST. A spokesman said the most likely explanation was a space rock or satellite crashing into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/07\/irish-astronomers-help-us-expl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irish Astronomers: Help us explain the &#8220;sky explosion&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-72w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064"}],"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=27064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}