{"id":629266,"date":"2025-12-13T01:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629266\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:13","slug":"meteor-shower-to-light-up-skies-over-norfolk-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629266\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor shower to light up skies over Norfolk in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Geminids\u200b \u2013 widely regarded\u200b as one\u200b of the &#8220;most impressive annual meteor showers&#8221; thanks\u200b to\u00a0their intensity, colour and consistency\u200b \u2013 will\u00a0reach\u00a0their peak overnight\u200b on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The meteors are\u00a0very bright, moderately fast and are unusual in being multi-coloured \u2013 mainly white, some yellow and a few green, red and blue.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to Royal Museums Greenwich, these colours are partly caused by the presence of traces of metals such as sodium and calcium, the same effect that is used to make fireworks colourful.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The crescent moon\u00a0means conditions are expected\u200b to\u200b be excellent across most\u200b of the UK, particularly\u200b over the Norfolk Broads.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  While most meteor showers originate from comets, the Geminids are leftover bits and pieces of the asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They can be seen with the naked eye and stargazers are encouraged to find a dark spot and to get comfortable for the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Geminids\u200b \u2013 widely regarded\u200b as one\u200b of the &#8220;most impressive annual meteor showers&#8221; thanks\u200b to\u00a0their intensity, colour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-629266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115709588492882286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}