{"id":13225,"date":"2010-11-12T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:59:28","slug":"lalande-jerome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lalande-jerome\/","title":{"rendered":"Lalande, J\u00e9r\u00f4me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joseph-J\u00e9r\u00f4me<\/strong><strong> Lalande <\/strong><strong>(1732-1807) <\/strong>was a famous French astronomer. He reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lalande.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19494\" title=\"lalande\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lalande.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/carli-giovanni-rinaldo\/\">Carli\u2019s<\/a> theory of the earth\u2019s close encounter with a comet and concluded that if a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/asteroids\/\">comet<\/a> had come within 3,000 miles of the earth, it would have created a tidal wave 12,000 feet high covering many mountain tops as it moved around the world and inspiring the global <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/deluge\/\">deluge<\/a> stories (and by extension the story of the flooding of Atlantis).<\/p>\n<p>A lesser known fact about Lalande is that he used to eat spiders!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph-J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lalande (1732-1807) was a famous French astronomer. He reviewed Carli\u2019s theory of the earth\u2019s close encounter with a comet and concluded that if a comet had come within 3,000 miles of the earth, it would have created a tidal wave 12,000 feet high covering many mountain tops as it moved around the world and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1010,159,1865],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comet","tag-deluge","tag-g-r-carli"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67209,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions\/67209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}