{"id":4590,"date":"2009-02-17T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/17\/totally-rude-comet-to-visit-ea\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:12:58","slug":"totally-rude-comet-to-visit-ea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/totally-rude-comet-to-visit-ea\/","title":{"rendered":"Totally Rude Comet to Visit Earth.  Briefly.  Green.  And Backward."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just who does this comet think it is?  The comet Lulin, discovered last year by a Chinese teenage amateur astronomer, has never been here before.  This is its first pass around the sun.  It will, owing to a number of different poorly explained by science journalists effects, fly at the sun backwards, spewing green gasses.  Only first time comets spew the green gas.  Then it will fly around the sun and back out into the far reaches of the solar system.  The comet will actually capture enough energy from this one single trip around the sun to escape the gravitational space time warp of our solar system.  Escape with the energy.<\/p>\n<p>Take take take.  That&#8217;s all this comet seems to be able to do.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it will be visible next monday.  Details <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090217\/ap_on_sc\/sci_odd_comet\">here<\/a>.  I assume that my brother in law, Glen, will be photographing the interloper, and I&#8217;ll keep you posted on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just who does this comet think it is? The comet Lulin, discovered last year by a Chinese teenage amateur astronomer, has never been here before. This is its first pass around the sun. It will, owing to a number of different poorly explained by science journalists effects, fly at the sun backwards, spewing green gasses. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/totally-rude-comet-to-visit-ea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Totally Rude Comet to Visit Earth.  Briefly.  Green.  And Backward.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1628,3850,191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1c2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}