{"id":215494,"date":"2026-03-22T14:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:19:11","slug":"a-meteoroid-hit-a-houston-home-yes-you-read-that-correctly-%e2%98%84%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215494\/","title":{"rendered":"A meteoroid hit a Houston home. Yes, you read that correctly! \u2604\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM<\/p>\n<p>Tags:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/topic\/vv\/\" title=\"View more stories about vv\" gacategory=\"Article Rail\" gaaction=\"Tag Link\" galabel=\"vv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vv<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">If you heard a big \u201cboom\u201d or thought you saw a shooting star around 3-4pm, today, that quick flash in the sky wasn\u2019t small at all\u2014it was a 3-foot space rock, about a ton, burning up as it tore through Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Crazy to think about.<\/p>\n<p>NASA says it was moving close to 35,000 mph, first visible high above Stagecoach before breaking apart over the Cypress area.<\/p>\n<p>When it came apart, it released energy comparable to 26 tons of TNT\u2014 enough to create the boom people heard across parts of Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOCAL NEWS Published:\u00a0March 22, 2026 at 7:48 AM Tags:\u00a0vv If you heard a big \u201cboom\u201d or thought you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,2159],"class_list":["post-215494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-vv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}