{"id":406952,"date":"2017-11-22T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c23569273392ac3c3825172e89f3b89e"},"modified":"2017-11-22T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:50:02","slug":"discovery-of-cigar-shaped-asteroid-from-outer-space-could-help-unveil-secrets-of-extrasolar-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=406952","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of cigar-shaped asteroid from outer space could help unveil secrets of extrasolar worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came from outer space \u2026 and went back there two weeks later, having astonished and excited astronomers and planetary scientists. A cigar-shaped object, less than half a kilometre long and barely bright enough to be detected by the world&#8217;s most powerful telescopes, payed us a flying visit in October this year \u2013 reminding us that the heavens still hold plenty of surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came from outer space &hellip; and went back there two weeks later, having astonished and excited astronomers and planetary scientists. A cigar-shaped object, less than half a kilometre long and barely bright enough to be detected by the world&#8217;s most powerful telescopes, payed us a flying visit in October this year &ndash; reminding us that the heavens still hold plenty of surprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406952","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406995,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406952\/revisions\/406995"}],"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=406952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}