{"id":681919,"date":"2021-02-22T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681919"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T16:21:00","slug":"how-were-the-trojan-asteroids-discovered-and-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681919","title":{"rendered":"How Were the Trojan Asteroids Discovered and Named?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system. He discovered the first of a small body of asteroids trapped in Jupiter&#8217;s orbit. No spacecraft has ever been to this population of small bodies, called the Trojan asteroids. The Lucy mission, launching this year, will be the first.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2021\/how-were-the-trojan-asteroids-discovered-and-named\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">How Were the Trojan Asteroids Discovered and Named?<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Goddard Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system. He discovered the first of a small body of asteroids trapped in Jupiter&#8217;s orbit.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goddard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681919","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=681919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681919\/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=681919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}