{"id":5591,"date":"2018-11-08T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2018-11-08T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:08:38","slug":"star-disappears-from-uae-skies-for-6-seconds-in-rak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/11\/08\/star-disappears-from-uae-skies-for-6-seconds-in-rak\/","title":{"rendered":"Star disappears from UAE skies for 6 seconds in RAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the International Astronomy Centre monitored and photographed a rare astronomical phenomenon in the UAE, which saw the occultation, or disappearance, of the star &#8216;HIP 48351&#8217; for six seconds by the asteroid &#8216;790 Pretoria&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.wam.ae\/uploads\/2018\/11\/23775567793098.jpg\" alt=\"\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00ae\u00d8\u00b7\u00da\u00be\u00d8\u00b8\u00d9\u00be\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00d8\u008c \u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a0\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00ac\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 \u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a0 \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b3\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00d8\u008c \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a5\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b1\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00da\u00be \u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00af\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a9 6 \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00ab\u00d8\u00b8\u00cb\u0086\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a0 \u00d8\u00b8\u00d9\u00be\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00ac\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b1 \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00d8\u00b8\u00d9\u00b9\u00d8\u00b8\u00cb\u0086\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6 \u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a0 \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b3\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b7\u00d8\u008c \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b1\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a3\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00b3 \u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a7\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00ae\u00d8\u00b8\u00d9\u00b9\u00d8\u00b8\u00e2\u0080\u00a6\u00d8\u00b7\u00c2\u00a9. 3\" width=\"710\" height=\"570\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Shawkat, Director of the Centre, said that this phenomenon can only be observed in specific areas in a narrow region not exceeding a width of 160 kilometres in the north the UAE, especially the north of Ras al-Khaimah.<\/p>\n<p>The astrological phenomenon provided valuable data to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the International Astronomy Centre monitored and photographed a rare astronomical phenomenon in the UAE, which saw the occultation, or disappearance, of the star &#8216;HIP 48351&#8217; for six seconds by the asteroid &#8216;790 Pretoria&#8217;. &nbsp; Mohammed Shawkat, Director of the Centre, said that this phenomenon can only be observed in specific areas in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}