{"id":3926972,"date":"2026-07-14T13:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-spin-of-plutos-moon-charon-may-be-slowing-down\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:01:24","slug":"the-spin-of-plutos-moon-charon-may-be-slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-spin-of-plutos-moon-charon-may-be-slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The spin of Pluto&#8217;s moon, Charon, may be slowing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Evidence of the slowing of Charon&#8217;s spin period (despinning) is recorded in tectonic features on the surface of Pluto&#8217;s icy moon, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The findings offer insights into the early thermal evolution of Charon and other icy satellites in the outer solar system.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-pluto-moon-charon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of the slowing of Charon&#8217;s spin period (despinning) is recorded in tectonic features on the surface of Pluto&#8217;s icy moon, according to a modeling study published in Nature Communications. The findings offer insights into the early thermal evolution of Charon and other icy satellites in the outer solar system. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#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-3926972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}