{"id":60435,"date":"2021-08-04T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=60435"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:47:54","slug":"kansas-wetlands-education-center-annual-meteor-shower-watch-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=60435","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Wetlands Education Center annual meteor shower watch party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each August, Earth passes through a stream of dust and debris left behind by the Swift-Tuttle Comet, lighting up the sky with shooting stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kansas Wetland&#8217;s Education Center\nwill host its annual end-of-summer Perseid Meteor Shower Watch Party on Friday,\nAug. 13, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Join Wetlands staff for this FREE,\nfamily-friendly event full of crafts, experiments, night hikes, and games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s environmental conditions are\nsetting up to be perfect! The moon sets early this year, producing a dark sky,\nand the party date for this year&#8217;s Kansas Wetlands Education Center Perseid\nMeteor Shower Watch Party falls on a peak day, which could produce over 150\nshooting star sightings per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FHSU\nScience and Mathematics Education Institute&#8217;s inflatable planetarium will also\nbe available for shows with guaranteed star-viewing! Visitors are encouraged to\nbring lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy s&#8217;mores while they kick back and enjoy\nthe night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KWEC is located 10 miles northeast\nof Great Bend along Kansas Highway 156 at Cheyenne Bottoms, 592\nNE K-156 HWY, Great Bend, KS 67530.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, visit its website\nat <a href=\"https:\/\/linkprotect.cudasvc.com\/url?a=http%3a%2f%2flink.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com%2fls%2fclick%3fupn%3dAzU7JuM9gNoo13mIpsUPJFGAsRGoL0-2FbjeliW-2Fj2r2YDnlTx6Vg0L9zVsK5l6PtBfIKJ_IbVvtzD2BnopUtSewq5g4rnpt6SzaHfk8R-2BeRtmVi8ros-2Bhw3KaKDOYD71rS-2BWWx-2B-2BUZcibDA3u3BXJ7Xw-2FqzxNpFhdlUyV4CDvdzrS3fYPeKtBPETyR47Z7pK58uDzzqZwMUNOb4M0LKONelCDnOeDCqo2EQjdRVuqkRMCWmI9M2ONcgre1woZYp7SRbH-2F8P2syOXNlxXIYGCpn6xJGwOpMxKaN4li2oGotvTDzeaodp-2BHhqWhxgq2OXInfSk5tdjLFILY3eYctmmz3xlh9d7t8KtCdIzsPP-2FayoFsuoQ-2F6N9ExIJ8vjUQMeLgRDrIuDH9-2BrVxzf9mDj3FQ6NH9reZIQJF-2BC5q497aTV9RRsG99DE-2FebCGcksmjquJYLj4D&amp;c=E,1,Ess6gBfbSBye7VYic_3ljmVlQBZio7CITY5HBkZWWRpUaZ8O1AgNi1UlkxQ8g428OGzh2iraIwx64fwugy-r0j14rsQL70rMc4L5DpmVlfRIHXg,&amp;typo=1\">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, lighting up the sky with&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-60435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435","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=60435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60436,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435\/revisions\/60436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}