{"id":145755,"date":"2025-10-26T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145755\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:52:08","slug":"narit-confirms-bright-meteor-over-thailand-was-a-bolide-not-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/145755\/","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":145756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,77785,38175,86016,133,391],"class_list":{"0":"post-145755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-meteor","12":"tag-meteor-shower","13":"tag-narit","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-thailand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115438914408098302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}