{"id":233020,"date":"2026-06-17T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-the-way-scientists-study-meteors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:20:17","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-the-way-scientists-study-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-the-way-scientists-study-meteors\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is transforming the way scientists study meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-astronomers-meteors\/90060209007\/\">Artificial intelligence is transforming the way scientists study meteors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-astronomers-meteors\/90060209007\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-astronomers-meteors\/90060209007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-17 11:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usatoday.com\">www.usatoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers used AI to analyze over 28,000 meteor events based on 13 different properties, developing a new classification system that ranks meteoroids&#8217; hardness, which they refers to as &#8220;Hclass.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The new method reveals more about a meteoroid&#8217;s composition and origin, whether from asteroids or comets.<\/li>\n<li>The analysis identified three main factors influencing what happens to meteors entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere: meteoroid&#8217;s movement, heating and glowing behavior, and its size and shape.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Hclass&#8221; scale provides insight into the meteoroid&#8217;s composition, distinguishing between dense materials from asteroids and fragile debris from comets.<\/li>\n<li>Meteor showers occur annually when Earth passes through debris trails left by comets, with peak activity when the Earth travels through the densest part of these trails. <\/li>\n<li>The study successfully applied machine-learning methods to common meteor showers, proving the method&#8217;s accuracy in identifying known origins of asteroids and comets.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers expect that this AI-driven classification system can be applied broadly to new meteor observations for future study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is transforming the way scientists study meteors https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/17\/artificial-intelligence-astronomers-meteors\/90060209007\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-17 11:32:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/17\/PBRE\/90587466007-usatsi-28876122.jpg?crop=2399,1350,x0,y108&width=2399&height=1350&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-233020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233022,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233020\/revisions\/233022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}