{"id":23812,"date":"2023-12-26T10:38:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=23812"},"modified":"2023-12-26T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T17:38:11","slug":"christmas-night-meteor-caught-on-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/christmas-night-meteor-caught-on-webcam\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas night meteor caught on webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53422419606_77c4cdb468_o.jpg\" alt=\"A still shot from a webcam captures a meteor as it enters the atmosphere. (ThorntonWeather.com)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still shot from a webcam captures a meteor as it enters the atmosphere. (ThorntonWeather.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anytime someone shares pics or video of a meteor in the Denver metro area, we check the Thornton Weather webcams to see if they caught it. As they only take a picture every minute, it is a very slim chance and they never had success \u2013 until last night!<\/p>\n<p>This morning we saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.cline.3781\/videos\/357213733571015\/?idorvanity=360165971432757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dashcam video from a Scott Cline<\/a> who was traveling westbound \/ south on 285 (Hampden) near Federal. The video clearly showed a meteor falling nearly vertical. No big fireball but it was clear what it was.<\/p>\n<p>We pulled up our images from our west facing webcam and as luck would have it, a picture taken at the same time caught the celestial entity entering the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Way cool!<\/p>\n<p>As always, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/webcam.php\">you can view our webcams here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anytime someone shares pics or video of a meteor in the Denver metro area, we check the Thornton Weather webcams to see if they caught it. As they only take a picture every minute, it is a very slim chance and they never had success \u2013 until last night! This morning we saw a dashcam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/christmas-night-meteor-caught-on-webcam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas night meteor caught on webcam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,634],"tags":[737,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23813,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23812\/revisions\/23813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}