{"id":57812,"date":"2017-05-31T19:02:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-strike-forced-enceladus-poles-to-shift"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:01:38","slug":"cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-strike-forced-enceladus-poles-to-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-strike-forced-enceladus-poles-to-shift","title":{"rendered":"Cassini images suggest asteroid strike forced Enceladus poles to shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-strike-forced-enceladus-poles-to-shift2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has announced that asteroid strikes may have tipped over Saturn\u2019s icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Researchers came to the conclusion after analysing the latest images and data from Cassini.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they have enough evidence to suggest the moon\u2019s spin axis \u2013 the line through the north and south poles \u2013 reoriented from its original position due to a collision with a smaller body, most likely an asteroid. The shift from its original axis is by 55 degrees, more than halfway rolling completely onto its side.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-strike-forced-enceladus-poles-shift-1624071\">http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/cassini-images-suggest-asteroid-str...ft-1624071<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has announced that asteroid strikes may have tipped over Saturn\u2019s icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Researchers came to the conclusion after analysing the latest images and data from Cassini. Researchers say they have enough evidence to suggest the moon\u2019s spin axis \u2013 the line through the north and south poles \u2013 reoriented from its original [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57812","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\/57812","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57903,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57812\/revisions\/57903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}