{"id":2079,"date":"2009-12-13T20:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T20:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/geminids-tonight-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T20:54:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T20:54:16","slug":"geminids-tonight-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/geminids-tonight-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Geminids tonight! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-8054-St-Louis-Astronomy-Examiner~y2009m12d12-Winters-Fireworks\">Geminids<\/a> meteor shower peaks tonight, so if you&rsquo;re willing to brave the cold weather (assuming it&rsquo;s cold where you are) then tonight is your best chance! <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2007\/08\/09\/12-things-you-need-to-watch-the-perseid-meteors-sunday-night\/\">I wrote a guide to watching meteors showers<\/a> a while back (it&rsquo;s for a different shower, but the general advice still holds true) that should help, too. I&rsquo;ve heard rumors that things will be pretty good tonight for people on the east coast of the U.S. after midnight. If the clouds dissipate tonight I may go for them myself&hellip; now that it&rsquo;s finally warmed up to the better side of the freezing point of water around here.<\/p><p>And if you do observe, you can join people across the planet and record your observations on Twitter using the hashtag #MeteorWatch. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/12\/11\/join-the-world-in-looking-for-geminids-this-weekend-with-meteorwatch\/\">Universe Today has details<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LuxO7bWSIC0UBpzw-Diae2w7Lp0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e2bbf_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LuxO7bWSIC0UBpzw-Diae2w7Lp0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e2bbf_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e2bbf_PnVYN8IQ6As\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e2bbf_jLIb6dOVe2w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight, so if you&rsquo;re willing to brave the cold weather (assuming it&rsquo;s cold where you are) then tonight is your best chance! I wrote a guide to watching meteors showers a while back (it&rsquo;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/geminids-tonight-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}