{"id":240857,"date":"2026-01-12T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240857\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:11:07","slug":"scientists-stumble-upon-fastest-spinning-asteroid-moving-at-dizzying-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/240857\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists stumble upon fastest-spinning asteroid moving at dizzying speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists discovered 76 asteroids, of which 16 are super-fast rotators, taking 13 minutes to 2.2 hours to complete on spin, while three are ultra-fast rocks, rotating once every five minutes or less. Typically, the latter are found among &#8220;Near-Earth Objects&#8221; (NEOs). However, 2025 MN45 was spotted in the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. This makes it the first such asteroid identified in that region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists discovered 76 asteroids, of which 16 are super-fast rotators, taking 13 minutes to 2.2 hours to complete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[122006,97059,91666,121999,122002,122000,122005,122004,61,60,91,82,122003,247,5278,122001],"class_list":{"0":"post-240857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-asteroid-alert","9":"tag-asteroid-news","10":"tag-asteroid-warning","11":"tag-asteroids-discovery","12":"tag-chile-telescope","13":"tag-comets-discovery","14":"tag-earth-and-asteroids","15":"tag-earth-news","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-nasa","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-science-discovery","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-space-discovery","23":"tag-very-rubin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}