{"id":20508,"date":"2024-10-08T10:22:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20508"},"modified":"2024-10-10T14:36:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T13:36:49","slug":"the-comet-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20508","title":{"rendered":"The Comet Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is on its way. The image below was taken by the sun-researching SOHO spacecraft, and shows the comet moving into its field of view. Also captured is a solar flare, which &#8212; when the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hits the comet later today or tomorrow &#8212; may disrupt the comet&#8217;s tail. CMEs also cause auroras when they reach Earth. The weather is looking clearish for sunset time from 10 Oct, when the comet should start to become visible from here. Here&#8217;s hoping.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20509\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/boomboom_opt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/>A1 is reading <em>The Mars House<\/em> by Natasha Pulley, thus finishing A1&#8217;s immensely pleasurable tour through NP&#8217;s oeuvre (A1 really needed some distraction during recent events). <em>TMH<\/em> is a cheerful SF tale clearly playing homage to Terry Pratchett (complete with amusing footnotes). The SF elements can be a little ropey, but the writing is so splendidly enjoyable that it&#8217;s forgivable. It&#8217;s baffling why her previous publisher (Bloomsbury) refused the book and dropped her completely &#8230; she&#8217;s clearly a terrific writer with much left to say.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Kennedy 35<\/em> by Charles Cumming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is on its way. The image below was taken by the sun-researching SOHO spacecraft, and shows the comet moving into its field of view. Also captured is a solar flare, which &#8212; when the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) hits the comet later today or tomorrow &#8212; may disrupt the comet&#8217;s tail. CMEs also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=20508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Comet Approaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20508"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20522,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20508\/revisions\/20522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}