{"id":5641,"date":"2008-09-08T17:39:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2008-09-08T17:39:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T23:39:26","slug":"moon-attacked-by-perseids-amateur-astronomers-take-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/moon-attacked-by-perseids-amateur-astronomers-take-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Attacked by Perseids, Amateur Astronomers Take Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/02sep_lunarperseids.htm?list1007936\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/spellman1_med.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"spellman1_med\" width=\"240\" height=\"152\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5642\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>NASA&#8217;s official lunar meteor observatories are located in Alabama and Georgia. Both were off-line on August 9th, so the NASA team didn&#8217;t see how many Perseids were hitting the Moon that night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/02sep_lunarperseids.htm?list1007936\" class=\"external external_icon\">shows how amateur astronomers can contribute to our research<\/a>,&#8221; points out Suggs. &#8220;We can&#8217;t observe the Moon 24-7 from our corner of the USA. Clouds, sunlight, the phase of the Moon\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall these factors limit our opportunities. A global network of amateur astronomers monitoring the Moon could, however, approach full coverage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2008\/02sep_lunarperseids.htm?list1007936\" class=\"external external_icon\">science@nasa<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s official lunar meteor observatories are located in Alabama and Georgia. Both were off-line on August 9th, so the NASA team didn&#8217;t see how many Perseids were hitting the Moon that night. &#8220;This shows how amateur astronomers can contribute to our research,&#8221; points out Suggs. &#8220;We can&#8217;t observe the Moon 24-7 from our corner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,81],"tags":[4930,491,492,208,493,120],"class_list":["post-5641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-space","tag-alabama","tag-amateur","tag-astronomers","tag-moon","tag-perseids","tag-the-end-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}