{"id":14222,"date":"2004-04-15T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/hubble-turns-to-sedna\/"},"modified":"2004-04-15T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-15T11:11:00","slug":"hubble-turns-to-sedna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/hubble-turns-to-sedna\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Turns To Sedna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?q=sedna&amp;sa=Search&amp;cof=AH%3Acenter%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.driko.org%3BAWFID%3Ac69b7d6cfab1342e%3B&amp;domains=www.driko.org&amp;sitesearch=www.driko.org\" target=\"_blank\">several posts about Sedna<\/a>, a planetoid discovered at the edge of our solar system.  NASA was able to target Sedna with the Hubble Space Telescope this week; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2004\/apr\/HQ_04125_sedna_mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\">here is the official press release<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/newsdesk\/archive\/releases\/2004\/14\/\" target=\"_blank\">here is a page with the images captured by the telescope<\/a>.  After reviewing the Hubble images, astronomers concluded that Sedna could be no more than 1,000 miles in diameter (about &frac34; the size of Pluto) but were very surprised to find that no moon was present.  Apparently, Sedna&rsquo;s extremely slow rotation, measured at a period of 40 days, is anomalous for a body that small, and astronomers expected to see that a &ldquo;companion object&rsquo;s&rdquo; gravitational tug was the cause.  It seems that although these images have revealed a lot about Sedna, there are still mysteries left to explore.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/04\/14\/2159234&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=134&amp;tid=160\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108202750096162590?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in March, I made several posts about Sedna, a planetoid discovered at the edge of our solar system. NASA was able to target Sedna with the Hubble Space Telescope this week; here is the official press release, and here is a page with the images captured by the telescope. After reviewing the Hubble images, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/hubble-turns-to-sedna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hubble Turns To Sedna&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}