{"id":48360,"date":"2022-09-10T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/10\/fire-in-the-sky-on-the-trail-of-space-rocks-with-new-zealands-meteorite-hunters"},"modified":"2022-09-10T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T19:00:41","slug":"fire-in-the-sky-on-the-trail-of-space-rocks-with-new-zealands-meteorite-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48360","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the sky: on the trail of space rocks with New Zealand\u2019s meteorite hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after installing a network of meteor-detecting cameras, the members of Fireballs Aotearoa were granted their dearest wish: a rock that fell to Earth<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a scene from a crime show as a search party in hi-vis jackets walks in formation, heads down, searching the brush for clues. But this group is not looking for evidence of a crime, they are after something harder to find: celestial debris from the formation of our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>On 28 August, just before 11pm, an immense bright light was seen streaking across New Zealand\u2019s southern sky, followed by a sonic boom. The spectacle, like a brushstroke of white paint on black ink, was captured by 20 hi-tech cameras across Southland set up for this exact event \u2013 a meteor entering the atmosphere above, and hopefully landing in, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/10\/fire-in-the-sky-on-the-trail-of-space-rocks-with-new-zealands-meteorite-hunters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after installing a network of meteor-detecting cameras, the members of Fireballs Aotearoa were granted their dearest wish: a rock that fell to EarthIt looks like a scene from a crime show as a search party in hi-vis jackets walks in formation, he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,299,297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-space"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48360\/revisions\/48361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}