{"id":28536,"date":"2024-07-23T22:34:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T05:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=28536"},"modified":"2024-07-23T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T07:00:08","slug":"comet-asteroid-69-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2024\/07\/23\/comet-asteroid-69-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet that&#8217;s really a near-Earth asteroid comes back around after 69 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; Keep an eye out for a <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/comets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comet<\/a> that only comes around every 69 years.<\/p>\n<p>Comet 13P Olbers is zipping through space fast and reached its closest approach to Earth on July 20 at 176 million miles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s close enough to be seen with binoculars or a small telescope this summer as long as you have an unobstructed view of the horizon. So close that NASA classifies it a near-Earth <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/asteroids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asteroid<\/a>, but with no risk of hitting Earth.<\/p>\n<p>During its orbit around our sun, the space rock travels from just outside Earth&#8217;s orbit all the way to Neptune and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Comet 13P Olbers is named after German astronomer Heinrich Olbers who first identified it more than 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrobin.com\/users\/h2ologg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dan Bartlett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED |<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2022\/06\/14\/dust-trail-from-largest-comet-outburst-comes-back-around\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dust trail from largest comet outburst comes back around<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep an eye out for a comet that only comes around every 69 years. Comet 13P Olbers is zipping through space fast and reached its closest approach to Earth on July 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,1301,1787,154],"class_list":["post-28536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-asteroid","tag-comet","tag-comet-13p-olbers","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-comet-13p-olbers.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28536"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28547,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28536\/revisions\/28547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}