{"id":548,"date":"2015-02-26T09:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2015-02-26T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:32:22","slug":"a-dwarf-planet-is-shining-two-bright-lights-at-a-nasa-spacecraft-right-now-and-our-smartest-scientists-are-unsure-what-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Mysterious Bright Spot On Ceres Has A Companion\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Of9NcRipAek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that&#8217;s the situation with Ceres \u2014 the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officially designated as a dwarf planet (the same category as Pluto).<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres ahead of a March 6 rendezvous. The picture above was taken February 19, from a distance of just under 29,000 miles, and shows two very shiny areas on the same basin on Ceres&#8217; surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/02\/25\/strange-lights-dwarf-planet-ceres\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link\">http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/02\/25\/strange-lights-dwarf-planet-ceres\/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that&#8217;s the situation with Ceres \u2014 the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officially designated as a dwarf planet (the same category as Pluto). NASA&#8217;s Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres ahead of a March 6 rendezvous. The picture above was taken February 19, from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}