{"id":18208,"date":"2014-11-17T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=18208"},"modified":"2014-11-19T15:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:03:16","slug":"leonids-meteor-shower-visible-in-syria-on-monday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=18208","title":{"rendered":"Leonids meteor shower visible in Syria on Monday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The Leonids meteor shower, caused by the Earth crossing paths with the dust particles left by the Tempel-Tuttle comet, will be visible on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Syrian Astronomical Society Mohammad al-Asiri told SANA that this phenomenon, caused by the dust particle from the comet entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, will peak on Monday night until dawn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the meteor shower is named after the constellation Leo which is visible in the background of the shower, adding that the shower will be visible in the north-northeastern direction, peaking at 12:36 AM on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The Leonids meteor shower, caused by the Earth crossing paths with the dust particles left by the Tempel-Tuttle comet, will be visible on Monday night. Head of the Syrian Astronomical Society Mohammad al-Asiri told SANA that this phenomenon, caused by the dust particle from the comet entering Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, will peak on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,167],"tags":[3108,3109,3110],"class_list":["post-18208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-science-and-technology","category-space","tag-leonids","tag-meteor-shower","tag-tempel-tuttle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}