{"id":767,"date":"2015-05-23T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=767"},"modified":"2015-05-23T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:13:31","slug":"meteor-explodes-over-ireland-with-the-power-of-an-atomic-bomb-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Meteor explodes over Ireland with the power of an atomic bomb (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers say a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/culture\/craic\/Dubliner-captures-rare-fireball-meteor-off-the-coast-of-Dalkey-PHOTOS.html\">meteor<\/a> exploded over Northern Ireland with the force of an \u2018atomic bomb\u2019 around 10pm on Sunday, April 25. They are looking for anyone who may have witnessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishcentral.com\/news\/Fireball-sighting-above-Northern-Ireland-prompts-hunt-for-meteor.html\">the fireball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"desktop-article-ad tablet-article-ad w469\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-adsbygoogle-status=\"done\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1530442700926220\" data-ad-slot=\"2635738348\"><ins id=\"aswift_0_expand\"><ins id=\"aswift_0_anchor\">\u00a0<\/ins><\/ins><\/ins><\/div>\n<p>David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/science\/astronomers-seeking-witnesses-to-sunday-fireball-1.2191088\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Times<\/a> that the meteor, which experts say was probably around the size of a car, may have produced the same energy of a World War 2 atomic bomb. He said his organization received hundreds of reports of the fireball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was most likely a rock from space exploding in the atmosphere, we\u2019re still trying to gauge how big it was and where it might have landed,\u201d said Moore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were in space looking down, you would have seen Ireland lit up for a few seconds. People in urban areas with their lights on watching their TVs with windows facing the right direction have reported seeing it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fireball on 26 April 2015 at 22:10\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/126129787?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"379\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Astronomers say a meteor exploded over Northern Ireland with the force of an \u2018atomic bomb\u2019 around 10pm on Sunday, April 25. They are looking for anyone who may have witnessed the fireball. \u00a0 David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine, told the Irish Times that the meteor, which experts say was probably around &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meteor explodes over Ireland with the power of an atomic bomb (VIDEO)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}