{"id":39952,"date":"2024-03-12T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T02:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39952"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T02:31:15","slug":"word-of-the-day-945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/12\/word-of-the-day-945\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Moonmoon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moons can come in all manner of configurations, too. Two of Saturn\u2019s \u2013 Janus and Epimetheus \u2013 almost share an orbit. But it could get weirder than that. \u201cIn principle, you could have crazy things like rings of moons around planets, like Saturn\u2019s rings but moons instead of tiny little particles,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/perso.astrophy.u-bordeaux.fr\/~sraymond\/\">Sean Raymond<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Bordeaux in France. Along with Juna Kollmeier at Carnegie Observatories in California, Raymond has even postulated that, under the right conditions, moons could have their own moons. These are called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2182158-moons-can-have-moons-and-they-are-called-moonmoons\/\">moonmoons<\/a>.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26134800-800-why-were-finally-on-the-cusp-of-finding-exomoons-around-other-planets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why we&#8217;re finally on the cusp of finding exomoons around other planets,<\/a>&#8221; <\/em>Jonathan O&#8217;Callaghan<em>, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (2 Mar 2024, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moonmoon: Moons can come in all manner of configurations, too. Two of Saturn\u2019s \u2013 Janus and Epimetheus \u2013 almost share an orbit. But it could get weirder than that. \u201cIn principle, you could have crazy things like rings of moons around planets, like Saturn\u2019s rings but moons instead of tiny \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/12\/word-of-the-day-945\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-39952","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\/39952","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=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39953,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions\/39953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}