{"id":186256,"date":"2024-03-28T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons"},"modified":"2024-03-28T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:25:05","slug":"mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons","title":{"rendered":"Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown \u2013 they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids \u2013 but now there is a hint of a cometary origin.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/jonathan-o-callaghan\/\" class=\"\">Jonathan O\u2019Callaghan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Red Planet acquired its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is unknown \u2013 they could have formed after something collided with the planet, or started out as asteroids \u2013 but now there is a hint of a cometary origin. By Jonathan O\u2019Callaghan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186256","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}