{"id":5265,"date":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/two-quick-2010-al30-updates-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T08:02:06","slug":"two-quick-2010-al30-updates-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-quick-2010-al30-updates-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Two quick 2010 AL30 updates | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/01\/12\/asteroid-to-pass-earth-harmlessly-wednesday\/\">2010 AL30<\/a>, the small object that passed the Earth earlier today:<\/p><p>1) I wrote that it looks to be natural and not some booster, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00002305\/\">but now an ESA scientist says<\/a> it might be a booster from Venus Express. His argument is a good one, but it&rsquo;s difficult to prove.<\/p><p>2) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2010\/01\/13\/images-and-videos-of-2010-al30\/\">Universe Today<\/a> has a very cool animation of the object as it slid past us, created using 30 still images. It&rsquo;s fun to watch, if a little dizzying.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/455ea_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fHvcXefkRjW-YfOBsmnzmvz9naA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/455ea_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/455ea_nTP5-f5YK1Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/455ea_YTXVOgztK1M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two quick things about 2010 AL30, the small object that passed the Earth earlier today:1) I wrote that it looks to be natural and not some booster, but now an ESA scientist says it might be a booster from Venus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/two-quick-2010-al30-updates-bad-astronomy.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-5265","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\/5265"}],"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=5265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}