{"id":488,"date":"2013-11-13T16:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/wp\/2013\/11\/13\/nov-13-2013-anyone-seen-ison-yet\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T16:25:52","slug":"nov-13-2013-anyone-seen-ison-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Paul Wiegert University of Western Ontario predicts possible Jan 12, 2014 meteors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Veteran meteor researcher Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario has been using a computer to model the trajectory of dust ejected by Comet ISON, and his findings suggest that an unusual meteor shower could be in the offing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For several days around<strong> January 12, 2014<\/strong>, Earth will pass through a stream of fine-grained debris from Comet ISON,&#8221; says Wiegert. &#8220;The resulting shower could have some interesting properties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mediafile width_200 right\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.3em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2013\/19apr_isonids\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to Wiegert&#8217;s computer models<\/a>, the debris stream is populated with extremely tiny grains of dust, no more than a few microns wide, pushed toward Earth by the gentle radiation pressure of the sun. They will be hitting at a speed of 56 km\/s or 125,000 mph. Because the particles are so small, Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere will rapidly slow them to a stop.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of burning up in a flash of light, they will drift gently down to the Earth below,&#8221; he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Best site to keep current : \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/waitingforison.wordpress.com\/november-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ISON is coming\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran meteor researcher Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario has been using a computer to model the trajectory of dust ejected by Comet ISON, and his findings suggest that an unusual meteor shower could be in the offing. &#8220;For several days around January 12, 2014, Earth will pass through a stream of fine-grained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Wiegert University of Western Ontario predicts possible Jan 12, 2014 meteors?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}