{"id":24140,"date":"2012-10-24T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/24\/nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T11:17:25","slug":"nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/24\/nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24140 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/24\/nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids\/attachment\/24141\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mc9vf5nSHP1qb7n75o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mc9vf5nSHP1qb7n75o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/tumblr_mc9vf5nSHP1qb7n75o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cozydark.com\/post\/34170787907\/nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids\">cozydark<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s WISE Colors in Unknowns On Jupiter Asteroids |<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists using data from NASA\u2019s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have uncovered new clues in the ongoing mystery of the Jovian Trojans \u2014 asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter. Like racehorses, the asteroids travel in packs, with one group leading the way in front of the gas giant, and a second group trailing behind.<\/p>\n<p>The observations are the first to get a detailed look at the Trojans\u2019 colors: both the leading and trailing packs are made up of predominantly dark, reddish rocks with a matte, non-reflecting surface. What\u2019s more, the data verify the previous suspicion that the leading pack of Trojans outnumbers the trailing bunch.<\/p>\n<p>The new results offer clues in the puzzle of the asteroids\u2019 origins. Where did the Trojans come from? What are they made of? WISE has shown that the two packs of rocks are strikingly similar and do not harbor any \u201cout-of-towners,\u201d or interlopers, from other parts of the solar system. The Trojans do not resemble the asteroids from the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, nor the Kuiper belt family of objects from the icier, outer regions near Pluto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJupiter and Saturn are in calm, stable orbits today, but in their past, they rumbled around and disrupted any asteroids that were in orbit with these planets,\u201d said Tommy Grav, a WISE scientist from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz. \u201cLater, Jupiter re-captured the Trojan asteroids, but we don\u2019t know where they came from. Our results suggest they may have been captured locally. If so, that\u2019s exciting because it means these asteroids could be made of primordial material from this particular part of the solar system, something we don\u2019t know much about.\u201d Grav is a member of the NEOWISE team, the asteroid-hunting portion of the WISE mission. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2012-322\" title=\"source\">continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cozydark: NASA\u2019s WISE Colors in Unknowns On Jupiter Asteroids | Scientists using data from NASA\u2019s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, have uncovered new clues in the ongoing mystery of the Jovian Trojans \u2014 asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter. Like racehorses, the asteroids travel in packs, with one group &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/10\/24\/nasas-wise-colors-in-unknowns-on-jupiter-asteroids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24142,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions\/24142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}