{"id":85627,"date":"2018-12-09T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/brightest-comet-of-the-year-can-be-seen-as-it-zips-past-earth"},"modified":"2018-12-09T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T16:22:21","slug":"brightest-comet-of-the-year-can-be-seen-as-it-zips-past-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/brightest-comet-of-the-year-can-be-seen-as-it-zips-past-earth","title":{"rendered":"Brightest comet of the year can be seen as it zips past Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brightest-comet-of-the-year-can-be-seen-as-it-zips-past-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have clear skies and are willing to brave the chilly temperatures, you might want to head to a dark site and look for a passing visitor.<\/p>\n<p>Comet 46P\/Wirtanen, first discovered in 1948, will have its closest encounter with Earth on Dec.16. But it\u2019s already visible in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>While this is the brightest comet of the year and the <a href=\"http:\/\/wirtanen.astro.umd.edu\/close_approaches.shtml\"> 10th closest comet in modern times<\/a>, don\u2019t expect one with a well-defined tail, a hallmark of comets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/comet-46p-wirtanen-1.4934910\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/comet-46p-wirtanen-1.4934910<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have clear skies and are willing to brave the chilly temperatures, you might want to head to a dark site and look for a passing visitor. Comet 46P\/Wirtanen, first discovered in 1948, will have its closest encounter with Earth on Dec.16. But it\u2019s already visible in the sky. While this is the brightest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85627","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}