{"id":640545,"date":"2019-12-12T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640545"},"modified":"2019-12-12T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T21:08:07","slug":"interstellar-comet-2i-borisov-swings-past-sun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640545","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar comet 2I\/Borisov swings past sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it&#8217;s bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I\/Borisov. This mysterious visitor from the depths of space is the first identified comet to arrive here from another star. We don&#8217;t know from where or when the comet started heading toward our Sun, but it won&#8217;t hang around for long. The Sun&#8217;s gravity is slightly deflecting its trajectory, but can&#8217;t capture it because of the shape of its orbit and high velocity of about 100,000 miles per hour.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-interstellar-comet-2iborisov-sun.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Interstellar comet 2I\/Borisov swings past sun<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like one-of-a-kind, it&#8217;s bound to stir up a lot of excitement and attention. Enter comet 2I\/Borisov. This mysterious&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-640545","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\/640545","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=640545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640545\/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=640545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}