{"id":1292,"date":"2012-11-16T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-10-22T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T14:47:26","slug":"leonid-meteor-shower-111712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"Leonid meteor shower 11\/17\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/jpl\/news\/asteroid20111231.html\">NASA &#8211; How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and &#8216;Save the Dates&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>Leonids<\/b>       <br \/>Comet of Origin: 55P\/Tempel-Tuttle       <br \/>Radiant: constellation Leo       <br \/>Active: Nov. 6-30, 2012       <br \/>Peak Activity: <font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\">Night of Nov. 17, 2012<\/font>       <br \/>Peak Activity Meteor Count: Approximately 15 per hour       <br \/>Meteor Velocity: 44 miles (71 kilometers) per second       <br \/>Note: The Leonids have not only produced some of the best meteor showers in history, but they have sometimes achieved the status of meteor storm. During a Leonid meteor storm, many thousands of meteors per hour can shoot across the sky. Scientists believe these storms recur in cycles of about 33 years, though the reason is unknown. The last documented Leonid meteor storm occurred in 2002. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/jpl\/news\/asteroid20111231.html\">NASA &#8211; How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and &#8216;Save the Dates&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA &#8211; How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year: Tools, Tips and &#8216;Save the Dates&#8217; Leonids Comet of Origin: 55P\/Tempel-Tuttle Radiant: constellation Leo Active: Nov. 6-30, 2012 Peak Activity: Night of Nov. 17, 2012 Peak Activity Meteor Count: Approximately 15 per hour Meteor Velocity: 44 miles (71 kilometers) per second Note: The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leonid meteor shower 11\/17\/12<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}