{"id":31890,"date":"2022-05-22T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T01:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31890"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T01:19:34","slug":"i-can-guarantee-one-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/i-can-guarantee-one-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"I can guarantee one thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it appears there could<\/em> be a surprise meteor shower on the morning of the 31st. Well, not exactly a surprise<\/em>, but one that isn’t recognized as a significant shower and hasn’t been a performer in the past.<\/p>\n

Universe Today has all the details<\/a>, but in short, a comet known as Comet 73P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (73P to its friends) was observed in 1995 to have broken up into numerous fragments, leaving multiple debris streams in the form of its tails. And on next Monday night\/Tuesday morning, we’re going to be passing straight through the bulk of these debris streams, which is what makes meteors in the first place. Peak time is about 1 AM EDT, and the moon will be on the other side of the planet – what you want<\/em> from a meteor shower, though it rarely happens.<\/p>\n

The thing is, no one really knows how much debris is in those streams, because we have no baseline to go from with this storm\/comet. It could be virtually unnoticeable, or it could produce over 1,000 meteors per hour<\/em>. Because of the orbital mechanics, the prediction is that any meteors will be slower than normal, perhaps taking a few seconds to trace their path, which would make them slightly easier to notice if, for instance, you first spot them out of the corner of your eye (which, I can tell you, happens a lot<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

So, will it be a waste of time to be out there looking and\/or photographing? No one can say. But as the title says, I can<\/em> guarantee that you won’t see a damn thing if you don’t try.<\/p>\n

Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, it appears there could be a surprise meteor shower on the morning of the 31st. Well, not exactly a surprise, but one that isn’t recognized as a significant shower and hasn’t been a performer in the past. Universe Today has all the details, but in short, a comet known as Comet 73P\/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (73P […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,3],"tags":[6749,6748,6751,991,6750],"class_list":["post-31890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-continued","category-photo","tag-comet-73p","tag-comet-73p-schwassmann-wachmann-3","tag-go-do-it","tag-meteor-shower","tag-tau-herculids-meteor-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}