{"id":85712,"date":"2018-12-11T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-geminid-meteor-shower-is-coming-to-a-sky-near-you-thursday-night"},"modified":"2018-12-11T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T17:42:23","slug":"the-geminid-meteor-shower-is-coming-to-a-sky-near-you-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-geminid-meteor-shower-is-coming-to-a-sky-near-you-thursday-night","title":{"rendered":"The Geminid meteor shower is coming to a sky near you Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-geminid-meteor-shower-is-coming-to-a-sky-near-you-thursday-night.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a cool doubleheader in outer space this week: In addition to the fly-by of <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/12\/04\/comet-46-p-wirtanen-zoom-across-night-sky-next-week\/2205179002\/\">comet 46P\/Wirtanen<\/a> over the weekend, the often spectacular Geminid meteor shower will also make its annual appearance Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of meteors streaking across the night sky, the Geminids are often the best meteor shower of the year. \u201cThe reliable Geminid shower counts as one of the year\u2019s best, peppering the nighttime sky with 50\u2013120 meteors per hour at its peak,\u201d noted <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/everything-you-need-to-know-geminid-meteor-shower\">EarthSky.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More good news: The crescent moon will set around 10:30 p.m., leaving the rest of the night moon-free, <a data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\" href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.com\/observing\/sky-this-week\/2018\/12\/the-sky-this-week-from-december-7-to-december-16\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Astronomy.com\">Astronomy.com<\/a><\/a> said. Observers under a clear dark sky can expect to see an average of two per minute.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/12\/10\/geminid-meteor-shower-peak-thursday-night\/2266483002\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/12\/10\/gemini...266483002\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a cool doubleheader in outer space this week: In addition to the fly-by of comet 46P\/Wirtanen over the weekend, the often spectacular Geminid meteor shower will also make its annual appearance Thursday. With hundreds of meteors streaking across the night sky, the Geminids are often the best meteor shower of the year. \u201cThe reliable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85712","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}