{"id":170898,"date":"2023-08-30T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/meteor-fragments-came-from-another-solar-system-says-avi-loeb"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T16:22:24","slug":"meteor-fragments-came-from-another-solar-system-says-avi-loeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/meteor-fragments-came-from-another-solar-system-says-avi-loeb","title":{"rendered":"Meteor fragments came from another solar system, says Avi Loeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meteor-fragments-came-from-another-solar-system-says-avi-loeb2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the meteor that Avi Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University calls IM1 streaked across the sky on 8 January 2014, it was nothing special.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, at half a meter in diameter, it was big enough to put on a nice show for people on the ground, ending in a rapid series of explosions high in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were some reports of flashes in the sky, and there was probably a boom, although I\u2019ve never heard anyone say that,\u201d says Loeb\u2019s colleague, Rob McCallum of Cambridge, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the meteor that Avi Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University calls IM1 streaked across the sky on 8 January 2014, it was nothing special. Yes, at half a meter in diameter, it was big enough to put on a nice show for people on the ground, ending in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}