{"id":25715,"date":"2024-01-13T05:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T05:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25715"},"modified":"2024-01-13T05:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T05:56:45","slug":"circling-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25715","title":{"rendered":"Circling the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2401\/22halo_Zboran1115.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div> Earth&#8217;s orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it&#8217;s an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year, perihelion was on January 2 at 01:00 UTC, with the Earth about 3 million miles closer to the Sun than it was at aphelion (last July 6), the farthest point in its elliptical orbit. Of course, distance from the Sun doesn&#8217;t determine the seasons, and it doesn&#8217;t the determine size of Sun halos. Easier to see with the Sun hidden behind a tall tree trunk, this beautiful ice halo forms a 22 degree-wide circle around the Sun, recorded while strolling through the countryside near Heroldstatt, Germany. The Sun halo&#8217;s 22 degree angular diameter is determined by the six-sided geometry of water ice crystals drifting high in planet Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240113.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth&#8217;s orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it&#8217;s an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25715\" 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-25715","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\/25715","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=25715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25716,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25715\/revisions\/25716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}