{"id":180503,"date":"2010-01-14T03:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10309"},"modified":"2010-01-14T03:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","slug":"two-quick-2010-al30-updates-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180503","title":{"rendered":"Two quick 2010 AL30 updates | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things about <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/12\/asteroid-to-pass-earth-harmlessly-wednesday\/\">2010 AL30<\/a>, the small object that passed the Earth earlier today:<\/p>\n<p>1) I wrote that it looks to be natural and not some booster, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00002305\/\">but now an ESA scientist says<\/a> it might be a booster from Venus Express. His argument is a good one, but it&#8217;s difficult to prove.<\/p>\n<p>2) <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2010\/01\/13\/images-and-videos-of-2010-al30\/\">Universe Today<\/a> has a very cool animation of the object as it slid past us, created using 30 still images. It&#8217;s fun to watch, if a little dizzying.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/nTP5-f5YK1Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/YTXVOgztK1M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things about 2010 AL30, the small object that passed the Earth earlier today: 1) I wrote that it looks to be natural and not some booster, but now an ESA scientist says it might be a booster from Venus Express. His argument is a good one, but it&#8217;s difficult to prove. 2) Universe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}