{"id":1047,"date":"2008-01-15T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T23:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1047"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:49:34","slug":"meteor-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/meteor-sighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->No picture, but I was outside about 20 minutes ago, facing due south towards Brighton when a fireball shot across the sky. Far too high for a firework. It sent a burning tail of greenish-orange in an arc across about a third of the sky before burning out. Quite spectacular! I presume a meteor. Very fleeting. The whole thing lasted less than 2 seconds. I&#39;ve only once before seen anything like this. That was about 6 years ago when something similar crossed the entire sky in broad daylight (I seem to recall we watched for an unearthly 20 seconds!). That turned out to be a piece of (I think) Russian space debris re-entering the atmosphere. It triggered sightings globally, and certainly made our day. if only I could remember the date I might be able to google it.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly made up for the constant rain today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flooding_1501081666.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flooding_1501081666-600x273.jpg\" alt=\"flooding_1501081666\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flooding_1501081666-600x273.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flooding_1501081666-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/flooding_1501081666.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-meteor","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}