{"id":646,"date":"2010-09-21T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=646"},"modified":"2010-09-21T12:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:35:08","slug":"phobos-not-a-captured-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/phobos-not-a-captured-asteroid\/","title":{"rendered":"Phobos not a captured asteroid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19486-mars-moon-may-have-formed-like-our-own.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&#038;nsref=online-news\">research<\/a> suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phobos_(moon)\">Phobos<\/a>, the larger of Mars&#8217; two moons, isn&#8217;t a captured asteroid after all. It&#8217;s still not clear if it was ejected from Mars in some kind of impact, or if it&#8217;s all that&#8217;s left after an earlier moon broke apart and augured in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that Phobos, the larger of Mars&#8217; two moons, isn&#8217;t a captured asteroid after all. It&#8217;s still not clear if it was ejected from Mars in some kind of impact, or if it&#8217;s all that&#8217;s left after an earlier moon broke apart and augured in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[141,140,139,144,142,143],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-asteroid","tag-mars","tag-moon","tag-science-2","tag-solarsystem","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-aq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}