{"id":24272,"date":"2019-03-04T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24272"},"modified":"2019-03-04T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:24:11","slug":"new-horizons-next-stop-ctd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/04\/new-horizons-next-stop-ctd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons Next Stop, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One must love luscious scientific mysteries, and it appears Ultima Thule is dishing them up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The larger bulbous end of the rock, called Ultima, is not spherical as we had thought, but flat, like a cookie. The smaller bulb, called Thule, is also somewhat squashed, like a walnut.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new images are creating scientific puzzles about how such an object could even be formed,\u201d mission scientist Alan Stern said in a statement. \u201cWe\u2019ve never seen something like this orbiting the sun.\u201d <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2193518-distant-ultima-thule-is-a-weirdly-flat-snowman-that-defies-explanation\/??utm_medium=NLC&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_campaign=2019-0212-GLOBAL-%20%20NSDAY&amp;utm_content=NSDAY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/11132809\/flipping-ut-modelreivsed2-800x533.gif?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>NASA\/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute\/National Optical Astronomy Observatory <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Honestly, the graphic just looks like some supernova debris that hooked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One must love luscious scientific mysteries, and it appears Ultima Thule is dishing them up: The larger bulbous end of the rock, called Ultima, is not spherical as we had thought, but flat, like a cookie. The smaller bulb, called Thule, is also somewhat squashed, like a walnut. \u201cThe new \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/04\/new-horizons-next-stop-ctd-3\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24273,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24272\/revisions\/24273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}