{"id":26293,"date":"2024-12-06T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T06:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26293"},"modified":"2024-12-06T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T06:56:17","slug":"xuyi-station-and-the-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26293","title":{"rendered":"Xuyi Station and the Fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2412\/PurpleMountainObservatoryXuYiStationFireball1024.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory\u2019s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth&#8217;s annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in China. Located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, the station began its operation as an extension of China&#8217;s Purple Mountain Observatory in 2006. Darling of planet Earth&#8217;s night skies in 2024, the bright comet designated Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C\/2023 A3) was discovered in images taken there on 2023 January 9. The discovery is jointly credited to NASA&#8217;s ATLAS robotic survey telescope at Sutherland Observatory, South Africa. Other comet discoveries associated with the historic Purple Mountain Observatory and bearing the observatory&#8217;s transliterated Mandarin name include periodic comets 60\/P Tsuchinshan and 62\/P Tsuchinshan. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap241206.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory\u2019s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth&#8217;s annual Perseid meteor shower. <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26293\" 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-26293","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\/26293","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=26293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26294,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26293\/revisions\/26294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}