{"id":234509,"date":"2015-09-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"9d182b916c209731be36228183211204"},"modified":"2015-09-28T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:00:00","slug":"rosettas-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=234509","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta&#8217;s comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/09\/rosetta_s_comet\/15624733-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_comet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTwo comets collided at low speed in the early Solar System to give rise to the distinctive \u2018rubber duck\u2019 shape of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image shown here was taken on 22 August 2014 at a distance of 63.4 km from the comet centre. It shows the comet\u2019s small lobe to the left, with the striking cliffs of Hathor clearly visible. In the foreground on the far right, the smooth Imhotep region can be seen on the large lobe. The image scale is 5.4 m\/pixel and it measures 5.5 km across.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/How_Rosetta_s_comet_got_its_shape\"><i>How Rosetta&#8217;s comet got its shape<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/09\/rosetta_s_comet\/15624733-1-eng-GB\/Rosetta_s_comet_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTwo comets collided at low speed in the early Solar System to give rise to the distinctive \u2018rubber duck\u2019 shape of Comet 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe image shown here was taken on 22 August 2014 at a distance of 63.4 km from the comet centre. It shows the comet\u2019s small lobe to the left, with the striking cliffs of Hathor clearly visible. In the foreground on the far right, the smooth Imhotep region can be seen on the large lobe. The image scale is 5.4 m\/pixel and it measures 5.5 km across.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore information: <a href=\"\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Rosetta\/How_Rosetta_s_comet_got_its_shape\"><i>How Rosetta&#8217;s comet got its shape<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}