{"id":638134,"date":"2019-11-20T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=638134"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:48:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:48:39","slug":"the-large-synoptic-survey-telescope-could-find-more-of-earths-transient-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=638134","title":{"rendered":"The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope could find more of Earth&#039;s transient moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as &#8220;the moon.&#8221; However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as &#8220;transient moons.&#8221; These are a subset of near-Earth objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth&#8217;s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-11-large-synoptic-survey-telescope-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope could find more of Earth&#8217;s transient moons<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as &#8220;the moon.&#8221; However, astronomers have known for a little over a&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-638134","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\/638134","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=638134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638134\/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=638134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}