{"id":8327,"date":"2017-03-29T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8327"},"modified":"2017-03-31T20:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T03:44:09","slug":"asteroid-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/29\/asteroid-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36263-wrong-way-asteroid-plays-chicken-with-jupiter.html\" target=\"_blank\">from SPACE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Wrong-Way, Daredevil Asteroid Plays &#8216;Chicken&#8217; with Jupiter<\/h1>\n<p>By Hanneke Weitering<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.purch.com\/w\/640\/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zcGFjZS5jb20vaW1hZ2VzL2kvMDAwLzA2NC8xOTAvaTAyL2FzdGVyb2lkLTIwMTUtYno1MDktbGJ0by5qcGc\/MTQ5MDgwNzUyMg==\" alt=\"This image of asteroid 2015 BZ509, captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), helped astronomers establish the object's retrograde, co-orbital nature.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>This image of asteroid 2015 BZ509, captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), helped astronomers establish the object&#8217;s retrograde, co-orbital nature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><cite class=\"fig-credit\">Credit: LBTO<\/cite><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have found a bizarre asteroid\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36262-6000-asteroids-in-jupiter-s-orbital-space-1-going-wrong-way-orbit-animation.html\" target=\"_blank\">orbiting the sun in the wrong direction<\/a>\u00a0while playing a risky game of &#8220;chicken&#8221; with the largest planet in the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed asteroid shares Jupiter&#8217;s orbital space while moving in the opposite direction as the planet, which looks like a recipe for a collision, astronomers said. Yet somehow, the asteroid has managed to safely dodge Jupiter for at least tens of thousands of laps around the sun, a new study showed.<\/p>\n<p>This mysteriously lucky asteroid was discovered in 2015 by astronomers using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/35092-pan-starrs-digital-sky-survey-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\">Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System<\/a>\u00a0(Pan-STARRS1) in Hawaii. It was given the provisional designation 2015 BZ509 with the nickname &#8220;BZ.&#8221; Scientists noticed that the asteroid moves in the opposite direction of every planet and 99.99 percent of asteroids orbiting the sun, in a state known as retrograde motion.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36263-wrong-way-asteroid-plays-chicken-with-jupiter.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue rading at SPACE.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SPACE Wrong-Way, Daredevil Asteroid Plays &#8216;Chicken&#8217; with Jupiter By Hanneke Weitering This image of asteroid 2015 BZ509, captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), helped astronomers establish the object&#8217;s retrograde, co-orbital nature. Credit: LBTO Astronomers have found a bizarre asteroid\u00a0orbiting the sun in the wrong direction\u00a0while playing a risky game of &#8220;chicken&#8221; with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}