{"id":556684,"date":"2026-07-18T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:20:10","slug":"nasa-discovers-asteroid-near-earth-is-actually-a-hidden-comet-after-decades-of-mystery-the-times-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/556684\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA discovers \u2018asteroid\u2019 near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA discovers \u2018asteroid\u2019 near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times of India<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMia0FVX3lxTE1wUjk5Q2Itb2VFTkNnUmJudjhONnZxMlJVYmhrRmRXVjRZWk11R3V4LWNRNlV1LVNScVE1Z3p6UUh2NGhNY2JmS2xXQ2U3NDVCREVRYzIwXy1mYTlSZF8xdmxNS0Y1S1ozQzNF?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Near-Earth asteroid not an asteroid at all<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Popular Science<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwwFBVV95cUxPZ3AzUUlESGpPSVc0WGp2TjJnV0xXNVpKSkpvSEVjNEs5cHNqLTJrN0d6dmxPVGVLTm40bG1ETEx1Z1BYNE1JUmdOMTU0Uzc5ODRDbmFJWkZDczlGekJhWTRiQWJIWm5XNS1ONU9GVG93bWx2M2RJTkJoUC1ob0dfSV9HdlZmR3RhdzdvU3pTZVQzVUZpVUFvaFdDb2ZBN0t1UG4wYkJlNXN1S2xyUHlFTW1nSGVFSnpWNDZVZGFFbXJ4QVk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dark Comet Disguised as Asteroid Derailed 27 Years of Planetary Defense Math<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Tech Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE1wSF9CSFMwR3RHNE41LU51RjVCc2t6WkZleWZ4cGlYdUlnQ01jaFVyZnFYX2wtZm8wWGFJMHBpREF6Ym1nUll3a01EdGtPT3JzdXEtMzdoQWNnZ3IzU2lhRTRBN2huMHVjWE1JcFhvbGx0d2dQcGRhVFF0Y21yWFk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a &#8216;dark comet&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Phys.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA discovers \u2018asteroid\u2019 near Earth is actually a hidden comet after decades of mystery&nbsp;&nbsp;The Times of IndiaNear-Earth asteroid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-556684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556684","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=556684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}