{"id":44193,"date":"2014-08-06T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/comet.html"},"modified":"2014-08-06T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T23:43:24","slug":"comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/06\/comet.html","title":{"rendered":"Comet!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Extremely (and astrophysically, and, in fact, temperature-wise) cool.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Philip Plait<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Thar be comet here!<\/b><\/p>\n

After a decade in space, Rosetta has arrived at its cometary target… and the pictures so far are amazing<\/i>.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/08\/06\/rosetta_its_journey_to_a_comet_achieves_its_goal.html<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Rosetta Arrives at a Comet!<\/a>
\n After a journey of more than 10 years and a total of many billions of kilometers, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally arrived at the comet 67\/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Outstanding. The European Space Agency has only released a few close-ups of the comet, but they’re simply stunning. They’ve also released images taken…\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Extremely (and astrophysically, and, in fact, temperature-wise) cool. Reshared post from +Philip Plait Thar be comet here! After a decade in space, Rosetta has arrived at its cometary target… and the pictures so far are amazing. http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/08\/06\/rosetta_its_journey_to_a_comet_achieves_its_goal.html\ufeff Rosetta Arrives at a Comet! After a journey of more than 10 years and a total of many … Continue reading “Comet!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28444,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/asteroid-comet-ufo-space-battle-happy-anniversary-tunguska-event.html","url_meta":{"origin":44193,"position":0},"title":"Asteroid? 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