{"id":25689,"date":"2023-12-28T05:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25689"},"modified":"2023-12-28T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:56:14","slug":"jupiter-and-the-geminid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25689","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and the Geminid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2312\/G0030446_1100.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth&#8217;s night. The serendipitous image was captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. The Geminid meteor shower, asteroid 3200 Phaethon&#8217;s annual gift, always arrives in December. Dust shed along the orbit of the mysterious asteroid causes the meteor streaks, as the vaporizing grains plow through our fair planet&#8217;s upper atmosphere at 22 kilometers per second. Of course Geminid shower meteors appear to radiate from a point in the constellation of the Twins. That&#8217;s below and left of this frame. With bright Jupiter on the right, also in the December night skyview are the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap231228.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth&#8217;s night. The serendipitous image was captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera in <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25689\" 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-25689","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\/25689","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=25689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}