{"id":99618,"date":"2019-12-11T07:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/nasa-baffled-asteroid-bennu-keeps-spitting-out-small-rocks"},"modified":"2019-12-11T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:13:41","slug":"nasa-baffled-asteroid-bennu-keeps-spitting-out-small-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/nasa-baffled-asteroid-bennu-keeps-spitting-out-small-rocks","title":{"rendered":"NASA Baffled: Asteroid Bennu Keeps Spitting Out Small Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-baffled-asteroid-bennu-keeps-spitting-out-small-rocks3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cAmong Bennu\u2019s many surprises, the particle ejections sparked our curiosity, and we\u2019ve spent the last several months investigating this mystery,\u201d Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asteroidmission.org\/?latest-news=nasas-osiris-rex-mission-explains-bennus-mysterious-particle-events\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is a great opportunity to expand our knowledge of how asteroids behave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are trying to figure out what is causing these \u201cejection events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this,\u201d Carl Hergenrother, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, told <em>Wired<\/em>. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that long ago that the conventional wisdom was that asteroids are these dead bodies that didn\u2019t change very much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this. \u201cAmong Bennu\u2019s many surprises, the particle ejections sparked our curiosity, and we\u2019ve spent the last several months investigating this mystery,\u201d Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona, Tucson, said in a statement. \u201cThis is a great opportunity to expand our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99618","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}