{"id":744,"date":"2011-05-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=744"},"modified":"2011-05-04T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:00:00","slug":"meteors-from-halleys-comet-before-dawn-may-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Meteors from Halley’s Comet Before Dawn May 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meteors from Halley’s Comet – NASA Science<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Mark<\/strong><\/em> your calendar. On May 6th<\/font>, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley’s comet, producing a mild but beautiful meteor shower known as the "eta Aquarids."\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The eta Aquarids are best viewed from the southern hemisphere, but there’s something special about them no matter where you live: "Each eta Aquarid meteoroid is a piece of Halley’s Comet doing a kamikaze death dive into the atmosphere," explains NASA astronomer Bill Cooke. "Many people have never seen this famous comet, but on the morning of May 6th<\/sup> they can watch bits of it leave fiery trails across the sky." \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Early risers are in luck, as the best viewing is an hour or two before dawn<\/font>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meteors from Halley’s Comet – NASA Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meteors from Halley’s Comet – NASA Science Mark your calendar. On May 6th, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley’s comet, producing a mild but beautiful meteor shower known as the "eta Aquarids."\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The eta Aquarids are best viewed from the southern hemisphere, but there’s something special about them no matter where … Continue reading Meteors from Halley’s Comet Before Dawn May 6th<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","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=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}