{"id":6623,"date":"2014-02-25T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2014-02-25T02:48:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:48:16","slug":"video-the-moon-gets-smacked-by-a-big-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6623","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Moon gets smacked by a big rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish team working in\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.net\/imc2012\/sites\/default\/files\/IMC2012_madiedo2.pdf\">MIDAS<\/a>\u00a0(Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis Software) project at\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhu.es\/english\/index.htm\">University of Huelva<\/a>\u00a0spotted an exceptionally bright impact on the Moon on\u00a0Sept. 11, 2013,\u00a0:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/asteroids-meteors-meteorites\/watch-the-man-in-the-moon-get-hit-in-the-face-140224-140224.htm\" target=\"_d\">Watch the Man in the Moon Get Hit in the Face: Video &#8211; Discovery News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCFDkj2JtyA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/asteroids-meteors-meteorites\/watch-the-man-in-the-moon-get-hit-in-the-face-140224-140224.htm\" target=\"_d\">Watch the Man in the Moon Get Hit in the Face: Video : Discovery News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish team working in\u00a0the\u00a0MIDAS\u00a0(Moon Impacts Detection and Analysis Software) project at\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0University of Huelva\u00a0spotted an exceptionally bright impact on the Moon on\u00a0Sept. 11, 2013,\u00a0:\u00a0Watch the Man in the Moon Get Hit in the Face: Video &#8211; Discovery News Watch the Man in the Moon Get Hit in the Face: Video : Discovery News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1IP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5038,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5038","url_meta":{"origin":6623,"position":0},"title":"Music video: &#8220;Good Morning Moon&#8221; by Marian Call","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a very nice space song by\u00a0Marian Call\u00a0called\u00a0Good Morning Moon, which she wrote and performed\u00a0:\u00a0Space Music: 'Good Morning Moon' by Marian Call : Discovery News. 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