{"id":4012,"date":"2012-05-25T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T00:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:38:42","slug":"meteor-explosion-sets-off-modern-day-gold-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Meteor explosion sets off modern-day Gold Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The excitement in the Earth and Space Sciences geochemistry seminar on April 24 was palpable as UCLA Professor John Wasson announced to students that a fireball had streaked across much of North America and exploded near Reno.<\/p>\n<p>The April 22 explosion of a meteor caused an early-morning sonic boom that rattled many in Northern California and Nevada. Scientists estimated it released energy equivalent to 3.5 kilotons of TNT, the size of a small atomic bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article by Kathleen Micham, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucla.edu\/portal\/ut\/meteorite-explosion-sets-off-modern-234411.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The excitement in the Earth and Space Sciences geochemistry seminar on April 24 was palpable as UCLA Professor John Wasson announced to students that a fireball had streaked across much of North America and exploded near Reno. The April 22 explosion of a meteor caused an early-morning sonic boom that rattled many in Northern California &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=4012\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meteor explosion sets off modern-day Gold Rush&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13201,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/13201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}