{"id":22568,"date":"2019-02-19T05:56:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22568"},"modified":"2019-02-19T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:56:35","slug":"comet-iwamoto-before-spiral-galaxy-ngc-2903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22568","title":{"rendered":"Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/cGfimZRZet8\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>It isn&#8217;t every night that a comet passes a galaxy. Last Thursday, though, binocular comet C\/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) moved nearly in front of a spiral galaxy of approximately the same brightness: NGC 2903. Comet Iwamoto was discovered late last year and orbits the Sun in a long ellipse. It last visited the inner Solar System during the Middle Ages, around the year 648. The comet reached its closest point to the Sun &#8212; between Earth and Mars &#8212; on February 6, and its closest point to Earth a few days ago, on February 13. The featured time-lapse video condenses almost three hours into about ten seconds, and was captured last week from Switzerland. At that time Comet Iwamoto, sporting a green coma, was about 10 light minutes distant, while spiral galaxy NGC 2903 remained about 30 million light years away. Two satellites zip diagonally through the field about a third of the way through the video. Typically, a few comets each year become as bright as Comet Iwamoto. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap190219.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t every night that a comet passes a galaxy. Last Thursday, though, binocular comet C\/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) moved nearly in front of a spiral galaxy of approximately the same <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22568\" 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-22568","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\/22568","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=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22569,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions\/22569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}