{"id":55908,"date":"2020-08-03T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55908"},"modified":"2020-08-03T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:57:07","slug":"%ef%bb%bffhsus-kansas-wetlands-education-center-annual-meteor-shower-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55908","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffFHSU\u2019s Kansas Wetlands Education Center annual meteor shower watch party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each August, Earth passes through a stream of dust and debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle Comet. With perfect weather conditions and no light pollution from the moon, the Perseid meteor shower can produce up to 100 shooting stars an hour. <br><br> Fort Hays State University\u2019s Kansas Wetlands Education Center will host its annual Perseid meteor shower watch party Friday, Aug. 14, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Join Wetlands staff for a night of activities, crafts, and shooting stars. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets to enjoy the night sky. <br><br> Come make an Alka-Seltzer rocket, explore how the chemical composition of a meteor affects its color, create a colorful planetary craft, discover if gravity makes a difference in plant growth, and view the constellations and hear the mythology behind them during a planetarium show. Actual meteorite specimens will be on display on loan from the FHSU Sternberg Museum of Natural History. <br><br> Due to Covid-19, the event may change as needed. Masks are required inside the KWEC. There will not be a Hershey S\u2019mores station this year, but a celestial pre-packaged snack will be available. <br><br> The KWEC is located 10 miles northeast of Great Bend along Kansas Highway 156 at Cheyenne Bottoms, 592 NE K-156 HWY, Great Bend, KS 67530. <br><br> For more information, visit its website at <a href=\"http:\/\/wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu\">wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu<\/a> or call 1-877-243-9268.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Each August, Earth passes through a stream of dust and debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle Comet. With perfect weather conditions and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/KWEC-Meteor-Shower-Image.jpg?fit=1368%2C770&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55910,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions\/55910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}