{"id":921841,"date":"2026-07-22T23:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-turns-out-to-be-comet-with-weak-tail\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:12:02","slug":"puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-turns-out-to-be-comet-with-weak-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-turns-out-to-be-comet-with-weak-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The near-Earth object (875163) 1998\u2009SH2, which is currently classified as an asteroid, has revealed a hidden identity: it\u2019s actually a comet in disguise, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.<br \/>\nThe post Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/p-1998-sh2-comet-14933.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature The near-Earth object (875163) 1998\u2009SH2, which is currently classified as an asteroid, has revealed a hidden identity: it\u2019s actually a comet in disguise, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The post Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":921842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32108,31914,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-near-earth","category-puzzling","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}