{"id":2324,"date":"2016-03-17T20:13:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/17\/dashcam-captures-green-st-patricks-day-meteor-over-britain\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T20:13:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T12:13:01","slug":"dashcam-captures-green-st-patricks-day-meteor-over-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/17\/dashcam-captures-green-st-patricks-day-meteor-over-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam captures green 'St. Patrick's Day' meteor over Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LONDON \u2014 There were several reports from across Britain of a green flash lighting up the sky Thursday, leading some to dub the fireball\u00a0the “St. Patrick’s Day Meteor.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: 16 spectacular meteor shower photos from the UK and Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

DJ Paul Gilbert captured the moment, which happened shortly after 3 a.m. local time on a dashcam as he was driving through Battersea in London.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The UK Meteor Observation Network also posted a video captured at\u00a0Church Crookham station in northeast Hampshire, showing the huge flash of light. The network\u00a0said<\/a> it was one of the biggest sightings recorded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It was a slightly larger meteor than is typical, Dr. Karen Masters from Portsmouth’s\u00a0Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation told<\/a> BBC Radio 4’s Today.\u00a0<\/i> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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LONDON \u2014 There were several reports from across Britain of a green flash lighting up the sky Thursday, leading some to dub the fireball\u00a0the “St. Patrick’s Day Meteor.”\u00a0 SEE ALSO: 16 spectacular meteor shower photos from the UK and Ireland … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860,1603,958,760,1112],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-london","tag-meteor","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}