{"id":99,"date":"2009-02-15T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T02:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/15\/more-on-the-colliding-satellites\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T12:26:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T17:26:47","slug":"more-on-the-colliding-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/15\/more-on-the-colliding-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"More on the colliding satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crh.noaa.gov\/product.php?site=JKL&amp;product=PNS&amp;issuedby=JKL\">National Weather Service<\/a> says<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT\r\nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY\r\n1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009\r\n\r\n...POSSIBLE SATELLITE DEBRIS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION...\r\n\r\nTHE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS RECEIVED CALLS THIS\r\nEVENING FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING POSSIBLE EXPLOSIONS AND...OR\r\nEARTHQUAKES ACROSS THE AREA. THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION HAS\r\nREPORTED TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THESE EVENTS ARE BEING CAUSED\r\nBY FALLING SATELLITE DEBRIS. THESE PIECES OF DEBRIS HAVE BEEN CAUSING\r\nSONIC BOOMS...RESULTING IN THE VIBRATIONS BEING FELT BY SOME\r\nRESIDENTS...AS WELL AS FLASHES OF LIGHT ACROSS THE SKY. THE CLOUD OF\r\nDEBRIS IS LIKELY THE RESULT OF THE RECENT IN ORBIT COLLISION OF TWO\r\nSATELLITES ON TUESDAY...FEBRUARY 10TH WHEN KOSMOS 2251 CRASHED INTO\r\nIRIDIUM 33.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Well, it would be if it were true.\u00a0 Turns out it&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/471\/story\/697294.html\"> just meteors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service says PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1145 PM EST FRI FEB 13 2009 &#8230;POSSIBLE SATELLITE DEBRIS FALLING ACROSS THE REGION&#8230; THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS RECEIVED CALLS THIS EVENING FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNING POSSIBLE EXPLOSIONS AND&#8230;OR EARTHQUAKES ACROSS THE AREA. THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION HAS REPORTED &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/02\/15\/more-on-the-colliding-satellites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on the colliding satellites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}