{"id":16038,"date":"2023-10-19T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T05:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:57:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:27:38","slug":"orionid-meteor-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/orionid-meteor-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Orionid meteor shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Orionid meteor shower<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual phenomenon that lights up the night sky every October.<\/li>\n<li>It is produced when Earth passes through the\u00a0debris left behind by Halley&#8217;s Comet, officially known as\u00a01P\/Halley.<\/li>\n<li>This comet, which orbits the sun approximately every 76 years, expels dust particles from its nucleus, creating a trail of debris in its path.<\/li>\n<li>Each year, our planet intercepts this path in late October, resulting in the Orionid meteor shower.<\/li>\n<li>Halley&#8217;s Comet, measuring about five by nine miles in size, loses between three to ten feet of material on each passage through the inner solar system.<\/li>\n<li>The Orionids are\u00a0visible in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres during the hours after midnight.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a meteor?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When\u00a0meteoroids enter Earth\u2019s atmosphere at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or \u201cshooting stars\u201d are called meteors.<\/li>\n<li>Meteor showers occur annually or at regular intervals as the Earth passes through the trail of dusty debris left by a comet.<\/li>\n<li>Meteor showers\u00a0are usually named after a star or constellation that is close to where the meteors appear in the sky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a meteoroid?<\/h3>\n<p>A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic object that travels through space. Meteoroids are smaller than asteroids, typically ranging in size from a grain of sand to a few meters in diameter. These objects can be composed of various materials, including rock, metal, or a combination of both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/is-halleys-comet-returning-orionid-meteor-shower-heres-what-is-happening-2450651-2023-10-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Is Halley\u2019s Comet returning? Here&#8217;s what is happening on Sunday<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orionid meteor shower  is an annual phenomenon that lights up the night sky every October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}