{"id":273698,"date":"2017-02-13T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5b05fa3052fc3782e16a1950de16b37e"},"modified":"2017-02-13T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:26:22","slug":"comets-trip-past-earth-offers-first-in-a-trio-of-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=273698","title":{"rendered":"Comet&#8217;s trip past Earth offers first in a trio of opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comet hunters still have a chance to see comet 45P\/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdu\u0161\u00e1kov\u00e1 in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope. It&#8217;s the first of a trio of comets that will\u2014between now and the end of 2018\u2014pass close enough to Earth for backyard observers to try to spot and for scientists to study using ground-based instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet hunters still have a chance to see comet 45P\/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdu&scaron;&aacute;kov&aacute; in the next few days using binoculars or a telescope. It&#8217;s the first of a trio of comets that will&mdash;between now and the end of 2018&mdash;pass close enough to Earth for backyard observers to try to spot and for scientists to study using ground-based instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273699,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273698\/revisions\/273699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}