{"id":156970,"date":"2023-02-03T19:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet"},"modified":"2023-02-03T19:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:24:45","slug":"pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet","title":{"rendered":"Pretty powerful\u2019: Indiana man captures rare \u2018green comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pretty-powerful-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LaPORTE COUNTY, Ind. (<a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/northwest-indiana\/pretty-powerful-northwest-indiana-man-captures-rare-green-comet\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> WGN<\/a>) \u2014 In freezing temperatures in rural LaPorte County, Indiana, a skywatcher was able to capture the rare \u201cgreen comet\u201d passing by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>Space enthusiasts like Patrick Thompson have been talking about C\/2022 E3 \u2014 more commonly known as the \u201cgreen comet\u201d \u2014 for the last couple of weeks. The comet was discovered only last year as part of a survey that monitors the solar system for moving objects with a wide-field survey camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaPORTE COUNTY, Ind. ( WGN) \u2014 In freezing temperatures in rural LaPorte County, Indiana, a skywatcher was able to capture the rare \u201cgreen comet\u201d passing by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. Space enthusiasts like Patrick Thompson have been talking about C\/2022 E3 \u2014 more commonly known as the \u201cgreen comet\u201d \u2014 for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}