{"id":2453,"date":"2009-12-16T19:08:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hubble-detects-small-kbo\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T19:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:08:21","slug":"hubble-detects-small-kbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble-detects-small-kbo.php","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Detects Small KBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e5576_hubble121609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e5576_hubble121609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"406\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Artists concept of smallest KBO.  Click for larger. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Schlichting (Caltech)<\/p><\/div><p><\/p><p>The image shown here is an artist concept depicting Hubble&rsquo;s detection of the smallest Kuiper Belt Object or KBO yet found.<\/p><p>You might be wondering why there is an artists concept and not the actual image.&nbsp; The object, just 3,200 feet across, is estimated to be 4,200,000,000 miles away and &ldquo;shines&rdquo; at 35th magnitude that&rsquo;s 100 times fainter than even Hubble can see!!&nbsp; I guess &ldquo;shines&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t really a good term, but you know what I mean.<\/p><p>The image was found by it occultation of a star.&nbsp; The KBO passed in front of a star causing it to wink out briefly.&nbsp; By knowing the instrument on Hubble samples changes 40 times a second, the researchers involved determined the event to last 0.3 seconds so they could calculate how large something would be to have to be.<\/p><p><a title=\"Read the full story at the Hubble page\" href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2009\/33\/full\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here at the Hubble page<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists concept of smallest KBO. Click for larger. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Science Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Schlichting (Caltech)The image shown here is an artist concept depicting Hubble&rsquo;s detection of the smallest Kuiper Belt Object or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble-detects-small-kbo.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}