{"id":373,"date":"2011-10-07T21:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=373"},"modified":"2011-10-07T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T20:03:18","slug":"possible-meteor-storm-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Possible Meteor Storm Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skywatching.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/draconid-meteor-radiant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Draconid Meteor Shower Radiant\" src=\"http:\/\/skywatching.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/draconid-meteor-radiant.jpg\" alt=\"Draconid Meteor Shower Radiant\" width=\"403\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draconid Meteor Shower Radiant - &quot;the Plough&quot; is to the bottom left<\/p><\/div>\n<p>No, don&#8217;t panic. It is not the end of the world. Just some dust particles burning up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of Saturday 8th October, astronomers predict there is a chance that the Draconid meteor shower may exhibit storm-force levels. This means several meteors may be visible each minute.<\/p>\n<p>Meteor showers are usually associated with a &#8220;parent&#8221; comet: the earth passes near the comet&#8217;s orbit and small particles left behind by the comet enter our atmosphere. There are several showers throughout the year and they usually produce a few tens of meteors per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely, the earth passes through a denser cloud of particles and hundreds of meteors might be seen. This could happen tomorrow night some time between 8pm and midnight. Some fainter meteors won&#8217;t be visible because the Moon will interfere. Still it will be worth looking north-west\u00a0 from a dark spot if you can.<\/p>\n<p>More information and observing tips can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteorwatch.org\/2011\/10\/02\/draconids-meteor-shower-2011\/\">Meteor Watch<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, don&#8217;t panic. It is not the end of the world. Just some dust particles burning up in the atmosphere. On the evening of Saturday 8th October, astronomers predict there is a chance that the Draconid meteor shower may exhibit storm-force levels. This means several meteors may be visible each minute. Meteor showers are usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6dbnw-61","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}