{"id":85876,"date":"2018-12-16T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-weekend-watch-the-skies-for-a-passing-comet"},"modified":"2018-12-16T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:23:11","slug":"this-weekend-watch-the-skies-for-a-passing-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/this-weekend-watch-the-skies-for-a-passing-comet","title":{"rendered":"This weekend, watch the skies for a passing comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-weekend-watch-the-skies-for-a-passing-comet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comet 46P\/Wirtanen will make its closest flyby on Sunday, Dec. 16, passing 7.1 million miles from Earth. It may even be bright enough to see without a telescope. Photo galleries &amp; how to observe: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EAoGvM\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EAoGvM\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EAoGvM<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156777431981772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156777431981772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet 46P\/Wirtanen will make its closest flyby on Sunday, Dec. 16, passing 7.1 million miles from Earth. It may even be bright enough to see without a telescope. Photo galleries &amp; how to observe: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2EAoGvM<\/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-85876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85876","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=85876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}