{"id":34543,"date":"2024-10-16T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=34543"},"modified":"2024-10-17T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:20:09","slug":"furmans-david-moffett-explains-ancient-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-david-moffett-explains-ancient-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s David Moffett explains ancient comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34544\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34544\" class=\"wp-image-34544 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/david-moffett-new-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"257\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/david-moffett-new-450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2024\/10\/david-moffett-new-450-150x86.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 450px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 450\/257;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Moffett, Department of Physics.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a celestial event that hasn&#8217;t breached our solar system in 80,000 years. Comet Tsuchinshan-<span class=\"caps\">ATLAS is viewable in the western sky at sunset through October 26. <a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=10%2F14%2F2024+8%3A47%3A07+AM&amp;u=814822&amp;e=true&amp;t=False&amp;aln=43021731\">FOX Carolina<\/a> spoke with Furman University&#8217;s David Moffett, a physics professor, about the ancient comet, pronounced &#8220;Choo-Cheen-Shahn.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet C\/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) graces the western skies of the Northern Hemisphere &#8211; something it hasn&#8217;t done in 80,000 years. Physics Professor David Moffett speaks to FOX Carolina about the celestial spectacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":34546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,49],"tags":[3061,3062],"class_list":["post-34543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-physics","tag-comet","tag-tsuchinshan-atlas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34548,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34543\/revisions\/34548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}