{"id":790165,"date":"2024-10-10T09:16:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790165"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:16:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T14:16:55","slug":"earth-may-be-about-to-pass-through-the-ion-tail-of-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=790165","title":{"rendered":"Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Comet C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Canary Islands on 30 September<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">CARLOS DE SAA\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Earth is about to have a close encounter with a comet, possibly passing through its ion tail \u2013 a rare occurrence. If we are lucky, it could show up as a blue streak in the northern hemisphere night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Grant at University College London and Geraint Jones at the European Space Agency say there is a good chance that tonight, 10 October, our planet will intersect the path of the ion tail of comet C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS). \u201cIt\u2019s a particularly unusual situation,\u201d says\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2451445-earth-may-be-about-to-pass-through-the-ion-tail-of-a-comet\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Canary Islands on 30 September CARLOS DE SAA\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock Earth is about to have a close encounter with a comet, possibly passing through&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790165","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/790166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}