{"id":22120,"date":"2024-04-03T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22120"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:10:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:40:19","slug":"mother-of-dragons-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mother-of-dragons-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Dragons&#8217; comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mother of Dragons&#8217; Comet<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is officially known as <strong>Comet 12P\/Pons-Brooks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a \u2018<strong>Halley-type\u2019 comet<\/strong> with an orbital period of roughly <strong>71 years<\/strong> and a nucleus approximately 30 km wide.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Composition: <\/strong>Itis composed of<strong> ice, dust, and rocky material<\/strong>. When it approaches the Sun, heat causes the ice inside the comet to turn from solid to gas.<\/li>\n<li>It is classified as a <strong>Jupiter-family comet<\/strong>, meaning its orbit is influenced by Jupiter&#8217;s gravitational pull.<\/li>\n<li>It typically reaches perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) around the orbit of Mars and can become visible to observers on Earth during its close approach.<\/li>\n<li>Its closest approach to Earth will occur in June 2024.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Comets<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comets are ancient cosmic icebergs. They are <strong>roughly 4.6 billion years old<\/strong> and formed at the same time as the Sun, Earth and the other planets.<\/li>\n<li>They are made of <strong>dust and ice<\/strong>, which partly goes from solid to gas when the comet is warmed by the Sun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related Topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/comet-nishimura\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comet Nishimura<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-green-comet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Green Comet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asteroid\/\" target=\"_blank\">What is an Asteroid?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q1:What is Halley&#8217;s Comet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is also known as 1P\/Halley, is the most well known comet in the Solar System. As a periodic (or short-term comet) it has an orbital period that is less than 200 years, and has therefore been observed more than once by people here on Earth over the centuries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/mother-of-dragons-comet-12ppons-brooks-visible-in-the-skies-2521698-2024-04-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mother of Dragons comet visible in the skies. All you need to know<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother of Dragons&#8217; comet is a \u2018Halley-type\u2019 comet with an orbital period of roughly 71 years and a nucleus approximately 30 km wide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22120","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\/22120","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=22120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}