{"id":578623,"date":"2019-02-12T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T21:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=47b04ead4f5b894b335fc6d95c553eca"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:58:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T21:58:04","slug":"nasa-says-ultima-thule-actually-looks-like-a-pancake-and-a-walnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=578623","title":{"rendered":"NASA Says Ultima Thule Actually Looks Like A Pancake And A Walnut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/02\/12\/gettyimages-1076554174_wide-aa112017bb81c5ca2f361329cbfb230299604f6b.jpg?s=600' alt='Images of the object nicknamed \"Ultima Thule\" photographed from the New Horizons spacecraft on January 1, 2019.'\/><\/p>\n<p>They had initially thought the object four billion miles from Earth looked like a snowman. The New Horizons spacecraft flew by it on New Year&#8217;s Day and new images give scientists a clearer picture. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=694012661' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had initially thought the object four billion miles from Earth looked like a snowman. The New Horizons spacecraft flew by it on New Year&#8217;s Day and new images give scientists a clearer picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578623","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579072,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578623\/revisions\/579072"}],"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=578623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}