{"id":973,"date":"2003-11-16T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2006-07-03T21:13:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T04:13:53","slug":"leonids-this-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/16\/leonids-this-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonids this Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-leonids13nov13,1,4404998,print.story?coll=la-headlines-california\">Los Angeles Times: Leonid Meteor Showers Are Due<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A similar show is expected Nov. 19 and could provide better viewing because the waning moon will not interfere as much. Viewers should look toward the eastern horizon between midnight and 2 a.m., said Scott Kardel, public affairs director of Palomar Observatory in San Diego County. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty unlikely we&#8217;re going to have a huge outburst,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Leonid meteor shower occurs each November when the Earth passes through dust trails shed by the comet Temple-Tuttle, which soars through the inner solar system every 33 years. <\/p>\n<p>For the last four years, Earth has passed directly through fresh dust trails and allowed some viewers to see more than a thousand meteors per hour. This year, the planet only brushes past dust trails that are several centuries old.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: Leonid Meteor Showers Are Due A similar show is expected Nov. 19 and could provide better viewing because the waning moon will not interfere as much. Viewers should look toward the eastern horizon between midnight and 2 a.m., said Scott Kardel, public affairs director of Palomar Observatory in San Diego County. &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}