{"id":3927763,"date":"2026-09-01T17:02:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/saturn-encounter-may-have-set-distant-centaur-on-path-to-becoming-a-comet\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:02:58","slug":"saturn-encounter-may-have-set-distant-centaur-on-path-to-becoming-a-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/saturn-encounter-may-have-set-distant-centaur-on-path-to-becoming-a-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturn encounter may have set distant centaur on path to becoming a comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) from Earth, an ancient icy object is slowly awakening. As it drifts inward through the solar system, the frozen body known as Centaur 450P\/LONEOS has begun releasing gas and dust\u2014behavior more commonly associated with comets than with centaurs, the small icy objects that typically orbit between Jupiter and Neptune.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-saturn-encounter-distant-centaur-path.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) from Earth, an ancient icy object is slowly awakening. As it drifts inward through the solar system, the frozen body known as Centaur 450P\/LONEOS has begun releasing gas and dust\u2014behavior more commonly associated with comets than with centaurs, the small icy objects that typically orbit between Jupiter [&#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-3927763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927763","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=3927763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}