{"id":754246,"date":"2023-04-25T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754246"},"modified":"2023-04-25T11:11:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T15:11:59","slug":"asteroids-comet-like-tail-is-not-made-of-dust-solar-observatories-reveal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=754246","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid&#039;s comet-like tail Is not made of dust, solar observatories reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts like a comet. It brightens and forms a tail when it&#8217;s near the Sun, and it is the source of the annual Geminid meteor shower, even though comets are responsible for most meteor showers. Scientists had blamed Phaethon&#8217;s comet-like behavior on dust escaping from the asteroid as it&#8217;s scorched by the Sun. However, a new study using two NASA solar observatories reveals that Phaethon&#8217;s tail is not dusty at all but is actually made of sodium gas.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/04\/230425111159.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asteroid&#8217;s comet-like tail Is not made of dust, solar observatories reveal<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have known for a while that asteroid 3200 Phaethon acts like a comet. It brightens and forms a tail when it&#8217;s near the Sun, and it is the source&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754246","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=754246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754246\/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=754246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}