{"id":40790,"date":"2010-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1720.html"},"modified":"2010-07-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:00:00","slug":"lulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=40790","title":{"rendered":"Lulin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Swift satellite views Comet Lulin as it made it closest approach to Earth in February 2009. Lulin, like all comets, is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. These &#8220;dirty snowballs&#8221; cast off gas and dust whenever they venture near the sun. Comet Lulin, which is formally known as C\/2007 N3, was discovered in 2008 by astronomers at Taiwan&#8217;s Lulin Observatory. Lulin passed closest to Earth &#8212; 38 million miles, or about 160 times farther than the moon &#8212; late on the evening of Feb. 23, 2009, for North America. Image Credit: NASA, Swift, Univ. Leicester, DSS (STScI\/AURUA), Dennis Bodewits, et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Swift satellite views Comet Lulin as it made it closest approach to Earth in February 2009. Lulin, like all comets, is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. These &#8220;dirty snowballs&#8221; cast off gas and dust whenever they venture near the sun. Comet Lulin, which is formally known as C\/2007 N3, was discovered in 2008 by astronomers at Taiwan&#8217;s Lulin Observatory. Lulin passed closest to Earth &#8212; 38 million miles, or about 160 times farther than the moon &#8212; late on the evening of Feb. 23, 2009, for North America. Image Credit: NASA, Swift, Univ. Leicester, DSS (STScI\/AURUA), Dennis Bodewits, et al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nasa-i-o-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}