{"id":22469,"date":"2018-12-19T05:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22469"},"modified":"2018-12-19T05:56:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T05:56:24","slug":"a-rainbow-geminid-meteor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22469","title":{"rendered":"A Rainbow Geminid Meteor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1812\/GeminidColors_Rowe_1080.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Geminid captured by camera during last week&#8217;s meteor shower that was not only impressively bright, but colorful. The radiant grit cast off by asteroid 3200 Phaethon blazed a path across Earth&#8217;s atmosphere longer than 60 times the angular diameter of the Moon. Colors in meteors usually originate from ionized elements released as the meteor disintegrates, with blue-green typically originating from magnesium, calcium radiating violet, and nickel glowing green. Red, however, typically originates from energized nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. This bright meteoric fireball was gone in a flash &#8212; less than a second &#8212; but it left a wind-blown ionization trail that remained visible for several minutes, the start of which can be seen here. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap181219.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Geminid captured by camera during last week&#8217;s meteor shower that was <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22469\" 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-22469","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\/22469","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=22469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22470,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions\/22470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}