{"id":7999,"date":"2017-10-20T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:17:30","slug":"orionid-meteor-shower-starts-tonight-once-in-our-lifetime-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/orionid-meteor-shower-starts-tonight-once-in-our-lifetime-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Orionid meteor shower starts tonight: once in our lifetime moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Punjab News 24, October 20: The meteor shower is visible throughout October, but it hits its peak on the nights of the 20th and 21st of October.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s possible to see between 15 and 30 meteors every hour. According to NASA, it is going to be one of the most beautiful meteor shower of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Orionid meteor shower occurs every year in October as debris from Halley\u2019s comet comes into contact with the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Although the comet itself is only visible from Earth every 75 years \u2014 the next sighting will be 2061 \u2014 its debris still causes the impressive meteor shower.<\/p>\n<p>When our orbit intersects the debris, it burns up in our atmosphere at a speed of around 66 kilometres a second.<\/p>\n<p>Orionid meteors have the potential to be visible anywhere on Earth, but Orion\u2019s Sword is the best position in the sky for stargazers to look.<\/p>\n<p>However, finding the astronomical asterism in the constellation Orion is not a necessity \u2014 the lack of moonlight from the new moon means you should be able to see it with the naked eye from a wide-open area.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Punjab News 24, October 20: The meteor shower is visible throughout October, but it hits its peak on the nights of the 20th and 21st of October. That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s possible to see between 15 and 30 meteors every hour. According to NASA, it is going to be one of the most beautiful meteor [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,312,315,87],"tags":[350,369,370],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-india","category-top-stories","category-world","tag-nasa","tag-top-stories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8001,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/8001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}