{"id":98430,"date":"2025-10-26T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/98430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:36:08","slug":"narit-confirms-bright-meteor-over-thailand-was-a-bolide-not-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/98430\/","title":{"rendered":"NARIT confirms bright meteor over Thailand was a bolide, not a threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bolide is a term used to describe an exceptionally bright meteor, often one that explodes in the atmosphere. These fireballs undergo a catastrophic breakup or detonate before reaching the ground. This explosion, or \u201cairburst,\u201d can produce a brilliant flash and sometimes a loud sonic boom.<\/p>\n<p>NARIT explained that a bolide can be as bright as the full moon, with an apparent magnitude of -14. It usually occurs about 80 to 120 kilometres above the Earth, making it visible across vast areas such as Thailand\u2019s central and eastern regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Orionids are caused by cosmic debris left behind by Halley\u2019s Comet (formally known as 1P\/Halley). The Earth passes through this stream of debris every year between October 2 and November 7, so the bolide seen early Sunday could have been one of the meteors from the Orionid shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bolide is a term used to describe an exceptionally bright meteor, often one that explodes in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,45059,5117,25191,141,1348],"class_list":["post-98430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meteor","tag-meteor-shower","tag-narit","tag-science","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}