{"id":99280,"date":"2019-12-03T01:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-spot-rare-minimoon-fireball-over-australia"},"modified":"2019-12-03T01:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T09:46:38","slug":"scientists-spot-rare-minimoon-fireball-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-spot-rare-minimoon-fireball-over-australia","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Spot Rare Minimoon Fireball Over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-spot-rare-minimoon-fireball-over-australia3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In pouring over data from Australia\u2019s Desert Fireball Network (DFN) \u2014 a network of cameras set up across Australia to capture images of minimoon fireballs, or minimoons entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burning up \u2014 a group of researchers have identified what they think is a minimoon meteor, or fireball.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that researchers have identified a TCO blazing through the atmosphere before hitting the ground. In finding the fireball, named DN160822_03, the researchers think that it exploded over the Australian desert on Aug. 22, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/41502-earth-has-minimoons-asteroid-science.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Earth Has \u2018Minimoons,\u2019 and They May Solve Asteroid Mysteries<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pouring over data from Australia\u2019s Desert Fireball Network (DFN) \u2014 a network of cameras set up across Australia to capture images of minimoon fireballs, or minimoons entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burning up \u2014 a group of researchers have identified what they think is a minimoon meteor, or fireball. This is the second time that [\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-99280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99280","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=99280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}