{"id":7536,"date":"2010-02-03T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hubble-images-asteroid-strike\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:00:42","slug":"hubble-images-asteroid-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble-images-asteroid-strike.php","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Images Asteroid Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3eb8_asteroid-collision-Hubble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5034\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/b3eb8_asteroid-collision-Hubble.jpg\" alt=\"NASA\/Hubble asteroid collision\" width=\"540\" height=\"432\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Image:  NASA\/ESA\/D.Jewitt, the incomparable Hubble, STScl 2010 07<\/p><\/div><p>This is incredible, and just released yesterday.&nbsp; Tom and I got the release yesterday morning, but waited until NASA could get the image up.&nbsp; NASA\/ESA had it ready last night.&nbsp; They are so awesome.<\/p><p>Scientist believe that Hubble captured something long suspected, but never seen:&nbsp; An asteroid collision in the Asteroid Belt.&nbsp; Asteroid collisions are what NASA calls &ldquo;energetic&rdquo; (I just bet they are), and believe they collide at about 11,000 mph, or about 5 times the speed of a rifle bullet.&nbsp; Hubble imaged this January 25th and 29th with the new Wide Field Camera 3.&nbsp; It was about 90 million miles from the Earth.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s fairly close for Hubble, but it can image objects as small as the size of a house at that distance.<\/p><p>There&rsquo;s plenty of evidence for ancient collisions, but we&rsquo;ve never been able to catch one in modern times.&nbsp; Scientists have identified the remains of the collision that resulted in an Earth asteroid strike 65 million years ago.&nbsp; We all know the end story of that little adventure.<\/p><p>NASA has the whole story&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hubble\/science\/asteroid-20100202.html\">here, <\/a>and it&rsquo;s worth a read.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: NASA\/ESA\/D.Jewitt, the incomparable Hubble, STScl 2010 07This is incredible, and just released yesterday.&nbsp; Tom and I got the release yesterday morning, but waited until NASA could get the image up.&nbsp; NASA\/ESA had it ready last night.&nbsp; They are so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hubble-images-asteroid-strike.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-7536","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\/7536"}],"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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}