{"id":8832,"date":"2009-10-12T22:35:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T06:17:40","slug":"fireball-over-hualalai-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8832","title":{"rendered":"Fireball Over Hual\u0101lai Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8829\">several folks saw this meteor<\/a> come in, including the entire evening crowd at the VIS. Another report from Kali on Maui emphasizes just how bright it was.<\/p>\n<p>Larry O&#8217;Brian reports from the VIS&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The highlight of the evening was unquestionably a spectacular fireball that burned brilliant green, slow- moving, threw off at least one fragment, the whole enchilada. No sound, other than thirty people shouting &#8216;wow!&#8217; I first caught it around, say, Aquila heading towards Ophiuchus, but people were already calling out about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Between Larry&#8217;s excellent report and my own sighting I can place this meteor coming in steeply somewhere over or just south of Hual\u0101lai. From around the summit to out to sea beyond Kealakekua, much closer than I would have thought. Given the breakup and low altitude the proximity implies there could have been pieces reaching the ground. Anyone in South Kona report something hitting their roof?<\/p>\n<p>Any readers want to join me search an entire 9,000ft volcano for meteor fragments? Spotting dark fusion crusted meteors on top of fresh black a&#8217;a basalt ought to be easy&#8230; Not!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like several folks saw this meteor come in, including the entire evening crowd at the VIS. Another report from Kali on Maui emphasizes just how bright it was. Larry O&#8217;Brian reports from the VIS&#8230; The highlight of the evening was unquestionably a spectacular fireball that burned brilliant green, slow- moving, threw off at least &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fireball Over Hual\u0101lai Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[979,62],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}