{"id":171589,"date":"2023-09-08T14:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/asteroid-behaving-weirdly-after-nasa-crash"},"modified":"2023-09-08T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:24:05","slug":"asteroid-behaving-weirdly-after-nasa-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/asteroid-behaving-weirdly-after-nasa-crash","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid behaving weirdly after NASA crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-behaving-weirdly-after-nasa-crash2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission was successful, and Dimorphos\u2019 orbit was shortened by 33 minutes in the weeks after the impact.<\/p>\n<p>However, a team of high school students led by teacher Jonathan Swift at Thacher School in California have discovered that Dimorphos\u2019 orbit continued to shrink by another minute more than a month after the collision.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The number we got was slightly larger, a change of 34 minutes,\u2019 said Mr Swift. \u2018That was inconsistent at an uncomfortable level.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission was successful, and Dimorphos\u2019 orbit was shortened by 33 minutes in the weeks after the impact. However, a team of high school students led by teacher Jonathan Swift at Thacher School in California have discovered that Dimorphos\u2019 orbit continued to shrink by another minute more than a month after the collision. \u2018The number [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171589","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\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}