{"id":751243,"date":"2023-03-22T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751243"},"modified":"2023-03-22T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:00:04","slug":"a-surprisingly-simple-explanation-for-oumuamuas-weird-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751243","title":{"rendered":"A surprisingly simple explanation for &#039;Oumuamua&#039;s weird orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed &#8216;Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or dust tail, like most comets, and a peculiar shape\u2014something between a cigar and a pancake\u2014and its small size more befitted an asteroid than a comet.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-simple-explanation-oumuamua-weird-orbit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A surprisingly simple explanation for &#8216;Oumuamua&#8217;s weird orbit<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed &#8216;Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no&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-751243","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\/751243","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=751243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751243\/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=751243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}