{"id":40221,"date":"2011-10-09T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/draconids-meteor-shower-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:44:49","slug":"draconids-meteor-shower-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/draconids-meteor-shower-on-saturday.php","title":{"rendered":"Draconids Meteor Shower on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/5082f_draco100611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"482\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><p>Comet 21P\/Giacobini-Zinner from Kitt Peak. Image via NASA.<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>Wanted to give everybody a heads up about the Draconid meteor shower set to peak on October 8, 2011.<\/p><p>Every 6.6 years the inner solar system is visited by Comet 21P\/Giacobini-Zinner and it looks like this year we could pass though the dust it leaves behind.<\/p><p>It looks like viewers in Europe are going to be best position as the best outbursts should be between 1900 and 2100 UTC (3:00 to 5:00 pm EDT) and the counts could be as high as 750 meteors per hour!!<\/p><p>Now while North America isn&rsquo;t position extrodinarly well for the show, I would expect to see at least some activity in the dark hours before and after the peak predicted hours.&nbsp; I will be outside watching under clear skies (YAY!) at around 04:00 and after 00:00 EDT.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll let you know via an update to this post one way or another.<\/p><p><a title=\"Draconid info at NASA\" href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2011\/04oct_draconids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click this NASA link for mroe details<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet 21P\/Giacobini-Zinner from Kitt Peak. Image via NASA.Wanted to give everybody a heads up about the Draconid meteor shower set to peak on October 8, 2011.Every 6.6 years the inner solar system is visited by Comet 21P\/Giacobini-Zinner and it looks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/draconids-meteor-shower-on-saturday.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-40221","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\/40221"}],"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=40221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}