{"id":2916,"date":"2011-08-26T10:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ferturperu.info\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:43:59","slug":"meteorite-blasts-through-atmosphere-over-cusco-possibly-sparking-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2011\/meteorite-blasts-through-atmosphere-over-cusco-possibly-sparking-wildfires\/2916\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorite blasts through atmosphere over Cusco, possibly sparking wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[Originally published August 26, 2011]<\/strong> The sky above Cusco was pierced on Thursday by a meteorite that burst across the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The huge iridescent streak of gaseous flames appeared at about two o&#8217;clock in the afternoon and was caught on this video, broadcast by cable news station Canal N.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronomer Maria Luisa Aguilar told on Radio Programs that, in spite of the miles-long fire trail, the meteorite was actually miniscule. &#8220;This must have been very small, tenths of millimeters,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This class of meteorites come from asteroids that lie between the planets Mars and Jupiter. &#8220;They start to split and fall, pulled by (earth&#8217;s) gravity into the atmosphere,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meteorite fell to the south of the Inca Imperial City, between the districts of San Sebastian and San Geronimo and experts said it may have sparked wild fires in a swath of cloud forest, which have been experiencing an unusually arid dry season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: La Rep\u00fablica and NDP-Noticias del Per\u00fa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Originally published August 26, 2011] The sky above Cusco was pierced on Thursday by a meteorite that burst across the horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27],"tags":[820],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cusco","category-news","tag-cuzco-news","post_format-post-format-video","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}