{"id":28868,"date":"2024-12-20T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28868"},"modified":"2025-04-08T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T17:14:31","slug":"dark-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dark-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dark Comet:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are <strong>celestial bodies<\/strong> which lack the glowing tails and resemble asteroids.<\/li>\n<li>The first indication of <strong>dark comets came in 2016<\/strong>, when asteroid 2003 RM exhibited unusual orbital deviations.<\/li>\n<li>Since then, astronomers have confirmed the existence of dark comets, with a new study published which revealed 14 such objects.\n<ul>\n<li>These comets fall into two main categories: <strong>\u201couter dark comets,\u201d<\/strong> which have eccentric orbits and are larger, and <strong>\u201cinner dark comets,\u201d<\/strong> which are smaller and closer to the Sun, with nearly circular orbits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dark comets are often <strong>small, just a few metres<\/strong> to a few hundred metres wide.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They have less surface area for material to escape and form into the beautiful tails we see on typical comets.<\/li>\n<li>They often <strong>spin quite rapidly<\/strong> and disperse escaping gas and dust in all directions, making them less visible.<\/li>\n<li>They follow <strong>elongated, elliptical paths<\/strong> that bring them close to the Sun before sweeping back out to the farthest reaches of the Solar System.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Asteroids?<\/h3>\n<p>Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the earlyformation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/what-is-a-dark-comet-a-quick-guide-to-the-new-kids-in-the-solar-system\/article68999558.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is a dark comet? A quick guide to the \u2018new\u2019 kids in the Solar System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Comets are celestial bodies which lack the glowing tails and resemble asteroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}