{"id":181096,"date":"2024-01-22T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/watch-asteroid-turns-into-fireball-before-crashing-into-earth-in-germany"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T16:25:21","slug":"watch-asteroid-turns-into-fireball-before-crashing-into-earth-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/watch-asteroid-turns-into-fireball-before-crashing-into-earth-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Asteroid turns into fireball before crashing into Earth in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-asteroid-turns-into-fireball-before-crashing-into-earth-in-germany2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small asteroid entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere Sunday morning and lit up the sky over eastern Germany. Videos of the incident have gone viral on social media, depicting a glowing object descending over Europe. Experts later confirmed that the light came from a disintegrating meteorite.<\/p>\n<p>According to astronomers and observers, the 2024 BX1 asteroid, which was temporarily designated as Sar2736, landed outside Berlin near Nennhausen at around 1:30 am local time. Hungarian astronomer Kriszti\u00e1n S\u00e1rneczky was the first one to discover the approaching asteroid several hours before its impact, according to The International Astronomical Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small asteroid entered Earth\u2019s atmosphere Sunday morning and lit up the sky over eastern Germany. Videos of the incident have gone viral on social media, depicting a glowing object descending over Europe. Experts later confirmed that the light came from a disintegrating meteorite. According to astronomers and observers, the 2024 BX1 asteroid, which was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181096","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}