{"id":246834,"date":"2026-11-07T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-mysterious-asteroid-is-accelerating-in-space-and-were-running-out-of-explanations"},"modified":"2026-11-07T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T00:06:01","slug":"a-mysterious-asteroid-is-accelerating-in-space-and-were-running-out-of-explanations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-mysterious-asteroid-is-accelerating-in-space-and-were-running-out-of-explanations","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Asteroid Is Accelerating in Space, And We\u2019re Running Out of Explanations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most asteroids are pretty predictable.<\/p>\n<p>They just do what they\u2019re told, pushed and tugged by external forces such as gravity or radiation pressure from the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Not 1998 KY26.<\/p>\n<p>KY26 is hooning about like a ne\u2019er-do-well \u2013 that is, accelerating in a way that defies expectations for how a well-brought-up asteroid ought to behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most asteroids are pretty predictable. They just do what they\u2019re told, pushed and tugged by external forces such as gravity or radiation pressure from the Sun. Not 1998 KY26. KY26 is hooning about like a ne\u2019er-do-well \u2013 that is, accelerating in a way that defies expectations for how a well-brought-up asteroid ought to behave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246834","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}