{"id":8389,"date":"2013-09-10T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T22:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:35:55","slug":"comet-like-tail-observed-from-rock-comet-phaethon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=8389","title":{"rendered":"Comet-like tail observed from &#8220;rock comet&#8221; Phaethon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8391 alignleft\" alt=\"phaethon\" src=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phaethon-300x298.jpg\" width=\"182\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phaethon-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phaethon-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/phaethon.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/>Using images captured by NASA&#8217;s STEREO spacecraft, UCLA Prof. David Jewitt and researcher Jing Li have detected a comet-like tail around the asteroid Phaethon.\u00a0 The iconic plumes of comets are normally created when cometary ice sublimates in the heat of the Sun, creating a dusty tail.\u00a0 However, Phaethon&#8217;s orbit takes it so close to the Sun that all the ice should have been completely scorched away long ago.\u00a0 Instead, Phaethon&#8217;s dust tail may have originated from dry, disintegrated rock on the surface of the asteroid pushed into space by solar radiation.\u00a0 Learn more about this recent discovery <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2013-09-phaethon-comet-stereo-vision.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using images captured by NASA&#8217;s STEREO spacecraft, UCLA Prof. David Jewitt and researcher Jing Li have detected a comet-like tail around the asteroid Phaethon.\u00a0 The iconic plumes of comets are normally created when cometary ice sublimates in the heat of the Sun, creating a dusty tail.\u00a0 However, Phaethon&#8217;s orbit takes it so close to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=8389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet-like tail observed from &#8220;rock comet&#8221; Phaethon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}