{"id":1105,"date":"2007-01-13T21:20:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T04:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/13\/saw-a-comet-today\/"},"modified":"2007-03-13T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T20:08:24","slug":"saw-a-comet-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/saw-a-comet-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Saw a comet today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/mcnaught-c2006p1_rhemann_mid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/mcnaught-c2006p1_rhemann_mid.thumbnail.jpg\" title=\"mcnaught-c2006p1_rhemann_mid.jpg\" alt=\"mcnaught-c2006p1_rhemann_mid.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>harlotte and I rushed to Fort Funston to catch the sunset. We both needed the rays. Unfortunately, we missed the sun by 5 minutes. But there were a bunch of folks with fancy camera gear. I kept overhearing them talking about something moving really fast and such. Charlotte finally asked what they were doing. They were looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap070105.html\">Comet McNaught<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered just last year and it&#8217;s orbit isn&#8217;t known precicely, though it is <strong>extremely<\/strong> eccentric. It won&#8217;t be back for hundreds, thousands or maybe tens of thousands of years. <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.jpl.nasa.gov\/cgi-bin\/db_shm?name=c\/2006+P1\">NASA site on it&#8217;s orbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only ever seen a glimpse of another comet, and that was on a hazy night. With my own eyes, I could make out the comet, streaking along just 15 million miles from the sun. And through binoculars, it looked &#8220;just like they do in the movies&#8221; :-)<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s a good thing we showed up when we did!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to go out just after sunset Sunday night to try and catch it. But it might already be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte and I rushed to Fort Funston to catch the sunset. We both needed the rays. Unfortunately, we missed the sun by 5 minutes. But there were a bunch of folks with fancy camera gear. I kept overhearing them talking about something moving really fast and such. Charlotte finally asked what they were doing. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}