{"id":8748,"date":"2023-08-06T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2023-08-10T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T18:25:48","slug":"perseid-meteor-shower-watch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?p=8748","title":{"rendered":"Perseid Meteor Shower: Watch It!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Find a dark location and look up this weekend to see the best meteor shower of the year. The\u00a0Perseid meteor shower<\/a>\u00a0peaks on\u00a0Saturday, Aug. 12. This year, a waxing crescent Moon will make it possible to spot even faint meteors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Find a dark location and look up this weekend to see the best meteor shower of the year. The\u00a0Perseid meteor shower\u00a0peaks on\u00a0Saturday, Aug. 12. This year, a waxing crescent Moon will make it possible to spot even faint meteors. What Is a Meteor Shower? In Depth: Perseid Meteor Shower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}