{"id":391120,"date":"2017-10-19T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchers.news\/post-id\/50911"},"modified":"2017-10-19T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T19:03:00","slug":"spinning-comet-rapidly-slowed-down-during-close-approach-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=391120","title":{"rendered":"Spinning comet rapidly slowed down during close approach to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers at Lowell Observatory observed comet 41P\/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak last spring and noticed that the speed of its rotation was quickly slowing down. A research team led by David Schleicher studied the comet while it was closer to the Earth than it has ever&#8230;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2017\/10\/19\/spinning-comet-rapidly-slowed-down-during-close-approach-to-earth\/\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers at Lowell Observatory observed comet 41P\/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak last spring and noticed that the speed of its rotation was quickly slowing down. A research team led by David Schleicher studied the comet while it was closer to the Earth than it has ever&#8230;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2017\/10\/19\/spinning-comet-rapidly-slowed-down-during-close-approach-to-earth\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391120","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\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391121,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391120\/revisions\/391121"}],"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=391120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}