{"id":33838,"date":"2011-04-10T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-asteroid-in-a-horseshoe-orbit\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:43:23","slug":"new-asteroid-in-a-horseshoe-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-asteroid-in-a-horseshoe-orbit.php","title":{"rendered":"New Asteroid in a Horseshoe Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d505a_horseshoeorbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d505a_horseshoeorbit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"469\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>A horseshoe orbit.  Image via Phyorg<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>A new (to us) asteroid has been found and it turns out to be an &ldquo;Earth companion&rdquo;.&nbsp; Not new really the asteroid has been in the orbit for some 250,000 years according to astronomers.<\/p><p>The asteroid, named 2010 SO16 was found by the WISE spacecraft gained the attention of Apostolis Christou and David Asher who apparently noticed something different about this one.<\/p><p>Different indeed, with respect to Earth asteroid 2010 SO16 appears to be in a rare <a title=\"What the heck?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Horseshoe_orbit\" target=\"_blank\">Horseshoe orbit<\/a>.&nbsp; Almost weird.<\/p><p><a title=\"Now it makes sense\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ras.org.uk\/component\/content\/article\/217-news2011\/1937-astronomers-find-newly-discovered-asteroid-is-earths-companion\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Astronomical Society explains . . .<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A horseshoe orbit. Image via Phyorg&nbsp;A new (to us) asteroid has been found and it turns out to be an &ldquo;Earth companion&rdquo;.&nbsp; Not new really the asteroid has been in the orbit for some 250,000 years according to astronomers.The asteroid, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-asteroid-in-a-horseshoe-orbit.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-33838","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\/33838"}],"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=33838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}