{"id":16863,"date":"2020-08-13T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:28:07","slug":"explained-what-is-the-perseids-meteor-shower-set-to-peak-mid-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-the-perseids-meteor-shower-set-to-peak-mid-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is the Perseids meteor shower set to peak mid-August?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Perseids meteor shower is going to be active from August 17th to 26th,2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/YTGj3kS3nYSAt9DiVWYI84EqZ7e1e5Fd9hmWOzqRJZyM8L3d80f6nNO9PzRyV9nnl-lMvbbl9heXK-YQOMiI1H9Lw3vYkSUZkx_dUivBGkymQMR_0L7Ghu-1dhQSWEfX1puBxlVd\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Perseids: <\/strong>It is a meteor shower that peaks every year in mid-August.It was first observed over 2,000 years ago.It occurs as the Earth runs into pieces of cosmic debris left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Comets<\/strong>: They are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun.<\/li><li><strong>Meteors<\/strong>: These are bits of rock and ice that are ejected from comets as they manoeuvre around their orbits around the sun.<\/li><li><strong>Meteor Shower: <\/strong>It is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate or originate from one point in the night sky.&nbsp;<ul><li>These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Perseids meteor shower is going to be active from August 17th to 26th,2020. Facts: Perseids: It is a meteor shower that peaks every year in mid-August.It was first observed over 2,000 years ago.It occurs as the Earth runs into pieces of cosmic debris left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle. Additional Facts: Comets: They&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-the-perseids-meteor-shower-set-to-peak-mid-august\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is the Perseids meteor shower set to peak mid-August?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[3004],"class_list":["post-16863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-perseids-meteor-shower","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780401,"cached_date":1704345604},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}