{"id":10877,"date":"2019-01-02T21:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=10877"},"modified":"2019-01-02T21:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T02:44:57","slug":"ultima-thule-1st-contact-binary-ever-explored-by-a-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=10877","title":{"rendered":"Ultima Thule: 1st contact binary ever explored by a spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UltimaThule?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UltimaThule<\/a>! What you\u2019re seeing is the 1st contact binary ever explored by a spacecraft. This object, which we can now see is a contact binary, used to be 2 separate objects that are now bound together. Watch for more <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASANewHorizons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASANewHorizons<\/a> science results <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZuxLDtzW9c\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZuxLDtzW9c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uF9VfgN4Fh\">pic.twitter.com\/uF9VfgN4Fh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NASA (@NASA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA\/status\/1080542930991865856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THIS is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UltimaThule?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UltimaThule<\/a>. <br><br>The image taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASANewHorizons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASANewHorizons<\/a> &#8211; shown in its original version (left) &amp; sharpened version (on right) &#8211; is the most detailed image of the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gItPsMvbPC\">https:\/\/t.co\/gItPsMvbPC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i7rDBURNrw\">pic.twitter.com\/i7rDBURNrw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Johns Hopkins APL (@JHUAPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JHUAPL\/status\/1080551583488847873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomie","category-exploration-spaciale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10880,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}