{"id":114844,"date":"2016-03-07T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T09:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114844\/end-of-the-world-or-celestial-spectacle\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T13:22:18","slug":"end-of-the-world-or-celestial-spectacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/03\/07\/end-of-the-world-or-celestial-spectacle\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the world or celestial spectacle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next total solar eclipse will take place between Tuesday, 8 March and Wednesday, 9 March 2016. Tomorrow will also see the first of six Supermoons for 2016 &#8211; add to that\u00a0asteroid TX 68, a 30-metre long lump of space rock, which will whistle past Earth as close as 42\u00a0000 km away.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/uBHeK87cMcM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h2>Solar eclipse and Supermoon<\/h2>\n<p>A\u00a0solar eclipse\u00a0occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A Supermoon is a full Moon or a new Moon at its closest point to Earth; also called perigee. A Supermoon looks around 12 to 14 percent bigger than its counterpart, the Micromoon.<\/p>\n<p>The eclipse will only be visible across an area of Pacific Ocean, beginning in Indonesia, and ending in the northern Pacific Ocean.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>If viewed from east of the International Date Line &#8211; for instance from Hawaii &#8211; the eclipse will take place on 8 March. The first people will start to see a partial eclipse at 23:19 GMT.<\/p>\n<h2>Doomsday preppers<\/h2>\n<p>Some Doomsday theorists are claiming that the \u201cfreak Supermoon, eclipse and asteroid on the same day &#8216;signals the end of world&#8217; or is at least a \u2018dire warning\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are stocking up on food supplies amid fears the world could end tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Doom mongers are not convinced the asteroid will miss us with fears we won&#8217;t be able to see it because it will be obscured by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The looming event has sent online doomsday predictors into a frenzy, particularly as NASA admits it is uncertain of the orbital path and has given estimates as close as 42 000 km away to as far as 24 million km.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/US2ZtaIu1Fg' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='c8c9e888e14fd07ccbe557b7deb015d3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From tomorrow through Wednesday the next total solar eclipse will take place coupled with a Supermoon and an asteroid passing staggeringly close to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":114978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[10128,10129,10130,10131,10132],"class_list":["post-114844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-asteroid-close-to-earth","tag-doomsday","tag-end-of-the-world","tag-supermoon","tag-total-solar-eclipse"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["asteroid close to Earth","doomsday","end of the world","Supermoon","total solar eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}