{"id":1545,"date":"2009-11-26T04:01:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T10:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2009-12-12T06:25:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T12:25:44","slug":"south-africa-meteor-caught-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/south-africa-meteor-caught-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa meteor caught on film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Breathtaking CCTV footage of a meteor lighting up the night sky over South Africa has been posted online.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The meteor was spotted by dozens people as it passed over Johannesburg and Pretoria in Kauteng province on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Johannesburg Planetarium subsequently appealed for any witnesses who managed to record the space rock&#8217;s fall to come forward with the footage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was sudden flash. Like an orange stripe in the sky, followed by a very bright explosion where the sky lit up as if it was daytime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Millions of meteors, or meteoroids as they are properly known, enter the earth&#8217;s atmosphere every day, although most are too small to be visible. Their tails of light are produced as they burn up at high speeds.<\/p>\n[media id=22 width=610 height=340]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathtaking CCTV footage of a meteor lighting up the night sky over South Africa has been posted online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1106,1109,1108,2524,2526,339,2525],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-gallery","tag-1106","tag-2012-movie","tag-2012-movie-revie","tag-meteor","tag-meteor-south-africa","tag-south-africa","tag-south-africa-last-minute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}