{"id":8242,"date":"2017-03-01T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8242"},"modified":"2017-03-03T12:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:06:28","slug":"stray-meteor-nearly-wipes-out-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/01\/stray-meteor-nearly-wipes-out-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray meteor nearly wipes out Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/thunderous-meteor-rattles-texas-sky-rare-sonic-boom\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from the Dallas News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Thunderous meteor rattles West Texas sky with sonic boom<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0Liz Farmer<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B6Fy8KEgEVA?ecver=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A booming meteor rocketed over Texas this weekend, rattling houses with a sonic boom, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in West Texas and beyond received calls about possible explosions Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be a\u00a0very bright meteor, according to the American Meteor Society.<\/p>\n<p>About 40 people reported on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/members\/imo_view\/event\/2017\/791\" target=\"_blank\">nonprofit group&#8217;s website<\/a>\u00a0that they&#8217;d seen the fiery meteor in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado about 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Fire Marshal Nathan Hines said he heard what sounded like thunder in Snyder, about 80 miles west of Abilene,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lubbockonline.com\/local\/news\/2017-02-27\/fireball-rocks-region-following-reports-explosion-scurry-county\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0<i>Lubbock Avalanche-Journal\u00a0<\/i>reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You could see a flash, like if an electrical transformer flashes at night, up to our northwest,&#8221; Hines said. &#8220;But it was cloudy here \u2014\u00a0kinda rainy \u2014 so we didn&#8217;t actually see any kind of fireball or anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/thunderous-meteor-rattles-texas-sky-rare-sonic-boom\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Dallas News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Dallas News Thunderous meteor rattles West Texas sky with sonic boom by\u00a0Liz Farmer A booming meteor rocketed over Texas this weekend, rattling houses with a sonic boom, according to reports. Authorities in West Texas and beyond received calls about possible explosions Sunday night. It turned out to be a\u00a0very bright meteor, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}