{"id":627113,"date":"2019-08-13T07:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=627113"},"modified":"2019-08-13T07:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:16:05","slug":"image-small-object-spotted-orbiting-67p-churyumov-gerasimenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=627113","title":{"rendered":"Image: Small object spotted orbiting 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week marked five years since ESA&#8217;s Rosetta probe arrived at its target, a comet named 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or 67P\/C-G). Tomorrow, 13 August, it will be four years since the comet, escorted by Rosetta, reached its perihelion\u2014the closest point to the sun along its orbit. This image, gathered by Rosetta a couple of months after perihelion, when the comet activity was still very intense, depicts the nucleus of the comet with an unusual companion: a chunk of orbiting debris (circled).&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-08-image-small-orbiting-67pchuryumov-gerasimenko.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Image: Small object spotted orbiting 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week marked five years since ESA&#8217;s Rosetta probe arrived at its target, a comet named 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (or 67P\/C-G). Tomorrow, 13 August, it will be four years since the comet,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627113","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627113\/revisions"}],"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=627113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}