{"id":3928833,"date":"2026-11-10T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/simulations-cast-doubt-on-unusual-asteroids-dark-comet-status\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:00:29","slug":"simulations-cast-doubt-on-unusual-asteroids-dark-comet-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/simulations-cast-doubt-on-unusual-asteroids-dark-comet-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulations cast doubt on unusual asteroid&#8217;s &#8216;dark comet&#8217; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 2031, Japan&#8217;s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 1998 KY26: a tiny body that is accelerating in a way that astronomers have struggled to explain. Some studies have suggested that the asteroid is pushed along by water escaping from it as gas, making it an as-yet theoretical &#8220;dark comet.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-simulations-unusual-asteroid-dark-comet.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2031, Japan&#8217;s Hayabusa2 spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 1998 KY26: a tiny body that is accelerating in a way that astronomers have struggled to explain. Some studies have suggested that the asteroid is pushed along by water escaping from it as gas, making it an as-yet theoretical &#8220;dark comet.&#8221; <\/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-3928833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928833","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=3928833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}