{"id":20470,"date":"2020-02-09T07:32:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T02:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=20470"},"modified":"2020-02-09T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T02:02:41","slug":"huge-meteor-explodes-in-the-sky-above-derby-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=20470","title":{"rendered":"Huge Meteor Explodes In The Sky Above Derby. Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>&#8220;The whole horizon was lit up and there was no sound.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man&#8217;s doorbell camera captured an exploding meteor in Derby, UK. According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/02\/04\/huge-meteor-explodes-beautiful-bright-burning-fireball-derby-12182658\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Metro News<\/a>, Gary Rogers received a text from his smart doorbell alerting him to suspicious activity outside his home. The 52-year-old was shocked when he realised that the suspicious activity was actually a celestial light show in the night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doorbell camera footage shows the meteor streaking across the sky before exploding into a fireball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was in bed and was about to go to sleep when my phone pinged. I couldn&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said Mr Rogers to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2020\/02\/04\/huge-meteor-explodes-beautiful-bright-burning-fireball-derby-12182658\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watch Video:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Huge meteor explodes in the sky above Derby | SWNS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IsEV1iiMr-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen shooting stars before but never a meteor. I thought it&#8217;s definitely not a firework, it was too bright for that. The whole horizon was lit up and there was no sound,&#8221; the Derby resident added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-england-derbyshire-51373851\/exploding-meteor-caught-on-doorbell-camera-in-derby\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, experts at the National Space Centre in Leicester said the natural phenomenon captured was probably a bolide &#8211; a large meteor and often extremely bright meteor which explodes in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rob Dawes, chairman of nearby Sherwood Observatory, said: &#8220;Mr Rogers was very lucky to get such a nice bright one. But you&#8217;d be surprised how many of these do come into the atmosphere at any time of year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(This story has not been edited by Kashmir Today staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The whole horizon was lit up and there was no sound.&#8221; A man&#8217;s doorbell camera captured an exploding meteor in Derby, UK. According to&nbsp;Metro News, Gary Rogers received a text from his smart doorbell alerting him to suspicious activity outside his home. The 52-year-old was shocked when he realised that the suspicious activity was actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}