{"id":27747,"date":"2010-08-12T21:44:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T02:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=27747"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:44:12","slug":"perseid-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/perseid-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While meteor showers are not technically an astrological event, they are one of the rare times the cosmos seems to literally come down to meet us. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the Perseid shower is the only one watchable without risking hypothermia and therefore the best known. Apparently there is a renaissance of sorts in the US regarding meteor shower research after a 20-year lapse, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2010\/0812\/Perseid-meteor-shower-August-2010-marks-more-than-just-a-show\">this article<\/a><\/strong> in the Christian Science Monitor.<\/p>\n<p>The article notes, &#8220;Meteors may be prime vehicles for delivering some of the organic molecules involved in the emergence of life on Earth. They have become cosmic bread crumbs leading back to the discovery of new sources for meteor shows, beyond the occasional passage of active comets. And some may be direct messengers from nearby stars hosting planets or a dusty disk from which planets are forming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cosmic breadcrumbs, huh? Sounds like quite the trail to follow home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While meteor showers are not technically an astrological event, they are one of the rare times the cosmos seems to literally come down to meet us. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the Perseid shower is the only one watchable without risking hypothermia and therefore the best known. Apparently there is a renaissance &#8230; <a title=\"Perseid Peak\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/photo-of-the-day\/perseid-peak\/\" aria-label=\"More on Perseid Peak\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}