{"id":507,"date":"2001-08-12T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2001-08-12T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2020-08-18T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:50:19","slug":"the-perseids-fail-to-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2001\/08\/12\/the-perseids-fail-to-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perseids Fail to Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around midnight to 2:00 am was supposedly the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. When I stepped outside at 11:40 pm I saw one in the first 30 seconds &#8211; bright and with a long tail, it streaked overhead as clear as anything. Cool, I thought, tracing it&#8217;s trajectory back and observed that it intersected a point in the sky mid-way between the constellations of Perseus and Cassiopeia, indicating that yes, this was most probably a piece of the tail of the Swift-Tuttle comet &#8211; which is what the Perseid meteor shower actually is, as the Earth passes through the debris field left by the comet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, that was the only meteor I saw that evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around midnight to 2:00 am was supposedly the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. When I stepped outside at 11:40 pm I saw one in the first 30 seconds &#8211; bright and with a long tail, it streaked overhead as clear as anything. Cool, I thought, tracing it&#8217;s trajectory back and observed that it intersected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}