{"id":747394,"date":"2023-02-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747394"},"modified":"2023-02-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T16:00:00","slug":"webb-detects-extremely-small-main-belt-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747394","title":{"rendered":"Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A previously unknown 100\u2013200-metre asteroid \u2014 roughly the size of Rome\u2019s Colosseum \u2014 has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA\/ESA\/CSA <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>. Their project used data from the calibration of the <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/How_MIRI_became_Webb_s_coolest_instrument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mid-InfraRed Instrument<\/a> (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and may be an example of an object measuring under 1 kilometer in length within the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. More observations are needed to better characterize this object\u2019s nature and properties.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Webb_detects_extremely_small_main-belt_asteroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously unknown 100\u2013200-metre asteroid \u2014 roughly the size of Rome\u2019s Colosseum \u2014 has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747394","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=747394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747394\/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=747394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}