{"id":157261,"date":"2023-02-07T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-asteroid-the-size-of-romes-colosseum"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:24:04","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-detects-asteroid-the-size-of-romes-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-asteroid-the-size-of-romes-colosseum","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope Detects Asteroid the Size of Rome\u2019s Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-detects-asteroid-the-size-of-romes-colosseum2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The object belongs to the poorly known sub-kilometer category of asteroids in the main belt. An asteroid roughly the size of Rome\u2019s Colosseum \u2014 between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length \u2014 has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope. They used data from the calibration of the MIRI instrument, in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the smallest observed to date by Webb and may be an example of an object measuring under 1 kilometer in length within the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. More observations are needed to better characterize this object\u2019s nature and properties. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, N. Bartmann (ESA\/Webb), Martin Kornmesser (ESA), Serge Brunier (ESO), Nick Risinger Photopic Sky Survey) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The object belongs to the poorly known sub-kilometer category of asteroids in the main belt. An asteroid roughly the size of Rome\u2019s Colosseum \u2014 between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length \u2014 has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope. They used data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}