{"id":281631,"date":"2017-03-01T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20170001803"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:18:52","slug":"baobab-big-and-outrageously-bold-asteroid-belt-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=281631","title":{"rendered":"BAOBAB (Big And Outrageously Bold Asteroid Belt) Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: One of the intriguing results of NASA&#8217;s Dawn mission is the composition and structure of the Main Asteroid Belt&#8217;s only known dwarf planet, Ceres [1]. It has a top layer of dehydrated clays and salts [2] and an icy-rocky mantle [3,4]. It is widely known that the asteroid belt failed to accrete as a planet by resonances between the Sun and Jupiter. About 20-30 asteroids >100 km diameter are probably differentiated protoplanets [5]. 1) how many more and which ones are fragments of protoplanets? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: One of the intriguing results of NASA&#8217;s Dawn mission is the composition and structure of the Main Asteroid Belt&#8217;s only known dwarf planet, Ceres [1]. It has a top layer of dehydrated clays and salts [2] and an icy-rocky mantle [3,4]. It is widely known that the asteroid belt failed to accrete as a planet by resonances between the Sun and Jupiter. About 20-30 asteroids &gt;100 km diameter are probably differentiated protoplanets [5]. 1) how many more and which ones are fragments of protoplanets? &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281631","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281632,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281631\/revisions\/281632"}],"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=281631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}