{"id":1869,"date":"2018-04-21T22:35:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2018-04-21T22:35:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T02:35:45","slug":"meteors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Meteors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl Scout troop was going to do some late night thing for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlscouts.org\/badgeexplorer\">badge<\/a> &#8211; go somewhere people work late, go to Panera for dinner, watch a movie, blah. I have to say, I thought Girl Scouts would be more like the Boy Scouts (<a href=\"https:\/\/meritbadge.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Hiking\">Hiking badge YEAH!<\/a>). But no. Girls apparently don&#8217;t do the cool stuff.\u00a0 I mean, hosting an &#8220;extreme nighttime party&#8221; as a badge requirement?!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we figured out that the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/Watch_the_Skies\/tag\/lyrid-meteor\/\">Lyrid meteor shower<\/a> peaked tonight, April 21. Faced with the choice of seeing Stop and Shop getting restocked, and heading out with blankets, 3 layers of hoodies, and some Dunkin&#8217; hot chocolate, the choice was clear.<\/p>\n<p>Screw Stop and Shop.<\/p>\n<p>We went to a recreation area in Tewksbury, the closest we could find to a good, dark, publicly accessible field. After setting up a blanket under us, and another on top, we cuddled together and started watching the skies. We saw multiple meteors, two normal satellites, and one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/celestial-objects-to-watch\/observing-iridium-flares\/\">Iridium flare<\/a>. Every one of those satellites was spotted by Beta, the Champion of Satellite Detection. She pointed out the Iridium satellite before it had a chance to flare, so we all got to see it.<\/p>\n<p>We hung out in the field for about 45 minutes before it got too cold, and we were tired.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, on the ride home, Beta saw one last\u00a0 meteor. Awesome end to the night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl Scout troop was going to do some late night thing for a badge &#8211; go somewhere people work late, go to Panera for dinner, watch a movie, blah. I have to say, I thought Girl Scouts would be more like the Boy Scouts (Hiking badge YEAH!). But no. Girls apparently don&#8217;t do the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=1869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meteors!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4o3FW-meteors","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}