{"id":3922165,"date":"2025-09-29T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/scientists-discover-63-new-young-asteroid-families-more-than-doubling-the-previous-number\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:04:09","slug":"scientists-discover-63-new-young-asteroid-families-more-than-doubling-the-previous-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/scientists-discover-63-new-young-asteroid-families-more-than-doubling-the-previous-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover 63 new young asteroid families\u2014more than doubling the previous number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Young asteroids\u2014which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system\u2014are typically created when larger asteroids, planetesimals, or comets collide and break up into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces form &#8220;asteroid families&#8221; that share certain properties, like their semimajor axis, eccentricity, and inclination\u2014all of which describe their orbital paths.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-scientists-young-asteroid-families-previous.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young asteroids\u2014which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system\u2014are typically created when larger asteroids, planetesimals, or comets collide and break up into smaller pieces. These smaller pieces form &#8220;asteroid families&#8221; that share certain properties, like their semimajor axis, eccentricity, and inclination\u2014all of which describe their orbital paths. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3922165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3922165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3922165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3922165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3922165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3922165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}