{"id":7763,"date":"2010-04-15T12:33:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/15\/midwest-fierball-video-and-a-f\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:33:20","slug":"midwest-fierball-video-and-a-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/midwest-fierball-video-and-a-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Fierball Video (and a falsehoold?!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videos of the so called fireball:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"416\" height=\"374\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"ep\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/apps\/cvp\/3.0\/swf\/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&#038;videoId=tech\/2010\/04\/15\/ia.wi.fireball.lights.up.skies.cnn\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny that it says in the CNN piece, quoting &#8220;NASA&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Air friction heats the meteoroid so that it glows and creates a shining trail of gases and melted meteoroid particles,&#8221; it said. &#8220;People sometimes call the brightest meteors fireballs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which, as I understand it, is a falsehood.  There is probably heat from friction, but most of the heat is from compression owing to the supersonic speed of the object.<\/p>\n<p>But that is not my area of expertise so I will leave it to others to expand on that.<\/p>\n<p>More videos:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ethJSLmvB9E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Iowa:<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lbfqrVC4JT0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Close call.  It could have been this:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zcAGHkEvkDU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I like the way he calls it a &#8220;landing site&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If a branch fell off a tree in your yard, would it have a &#8220;landing site&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videos of the so called fireball:<\/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\/p5fhV1-21d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763"}],"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=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}