{"id":13569,"date":"2017-12-22T05:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13569"},"modified":"2017-12-22T05:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T05:56:41","slug":"gemini-s-meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13569","title":{"rendered":"Gemini s Meteors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1712\/GeminidMeteorShowerOverChina-Dai1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>From dark skies above Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, meteors rain down on a wintry landscape in this beautiful composited night scene. The 48 meteors are part of last week&#8217;s annual Geminid meteor shower. Despite temperatures of -28 degrees C, all were recorded in camera exposures made during the peak hour of the celestial spectacle. They stream away from the shower&#8217;s radiant high above the horizon near the two bright stars of the zodiacal constellation of the Twins. A very active shower, this year the December 13-14 peak of the Geminids arrived just before the December 16 closest approach of asteroid 3200 Phaethon to planet Earth. Mysterious 3200 Phaethon is the Geminid shower&#8217;s likely parent body. via NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/2BroLAI\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From dark skies above Heilongjiang province in northeastern China, meteors rain down on a wintry landscape in this beautiful composited night scene. The 48 meteors are part of last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=13569\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-13569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13570,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13569\/revisions\/13570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}