{"id":9598,"date":"2019-01-23T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T04:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2019-02-05T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T04:16:55","slug":"lunar-meteor-exposes-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/23\/lunar-meteor-exposes-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Meteor Exposes Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/01\/meteor-hit-the-moon-during-blood-moon-eclipse-heres-what-we-know\/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190130::rid=2798819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here&#8217;s what we know.<\/h1>\n<h2>In what may be a first-of-its-kind event, a flash of light seen during totality has astronomers on the hunt for a new crater on the moon.<\/h2>\n<p>BY <span class=\"byline-component__contributors\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/contributors\/w\/Maya_Wei-Haas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>MAYA WEI-HAAS<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MJH78GD70is\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>On Sunday, January 20, viewers across the Western Hemisphere were treated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/01\/how-to-watch-super-blood-wolf-moon-lunar-eclipse\/?no-cache\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rusty hues of the decade&#8217;s last \u201cblood moon\u201d eclipse<\/a>. But as people across the planet watched the moon glow crimson, some lucky observers caught an unexpected delight: the flash of a space rock striking the lunar orb.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"parbase smartbody section text\">\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a rare alignment of infrequent events,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonybrook.edu\/commcms\/geosciences\/people\/grad-students.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Cowart<\/a>, a Ph.D. candidate at Stony Brook University in New York. \u201cA [meteoroid] about this size hits the moon about once a week or so,\u201d he says. But if this event is confirmed, it may be the first time such an impact has been recorded during a lunar eclipse.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/space\/comments\/ai79zy\/possible_meteor_impact_on_moon_during_the_eclipse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eagle-eyed viewer on Reddit<\/a> spotted the potential impact during the eclipse and reached out to the r\/space community to see if others could weigh in. The news spread quickly on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willgater\/status\/1087478475919900672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, as people from across the path of totality posted their images and video of this tiny flicker of light.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2019\/01\/meteor-hit-the-moon-during-blood-moon-eclipse-heres-what-we-know\/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Science_20190130::rid=2798819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at NatGeo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic A meteor hit the moon during the lunar eclipse. Here&#8217;s what we know. In what may be a first-of-its-kind event, a flash of light seen during totality has astronomers on the hunt for a new crater on the moon. BY MAYA WEI-HAAS On Sunday, January 20, viewers across the Western Hemisphere were [&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-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","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=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}