{"id":425491,"date":"2018-01-10T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=def1e88a78a55bb3326d792035c50b93"},"modified":"2018-01-10T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:49:23","slug":"nasas-newly-renamed-swift-mission-spies-a-comet-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=425491","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s newly renamed Swift Mission spies a comet slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observations by NASA&#8217;s Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission&#8217;s late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P\/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kres\u00e1k\u201441P for short\u2014was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observations by NASA&#8217;s Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission&#8217;s late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P\/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kres&aacute;k&mdash;41P for short&mdash;was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.<\/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-425491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425491","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=425491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425492,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425491\/revisions\/425492"}],"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=425491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}