{"id":272,"date":"2007-09-28T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/09\/28\/272\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T05:44:00","slug":"272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/09\/28\/272\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dawn spacecraft is on its way to the asteroid belt.  It took off this morning about 7:30 Eastern Time (4:30 Pacific).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21016108\/\">MSNBC <\/a>relates that astronomers have found something odd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new and intense type of radio burst has been discovered in archived views of the cosmos, astronomers revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>The single, short-lived blast of radio waves likely occurred some 3 billion light-years from Earth, and it may signal a cosmic car crash of two neutron stars, the death throes of a black hole \u2014 or something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a Star Trek fan I like to imagine it&#8217;s a starship going to warp. But I know it&#8217;s probably something more mundane (as if coliding neutron stars or a dying black hole isn&#8217;t actually something quite weird in its own right).<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dawn spacecraft is on its way to the asteroid belt. It took off this morning about 7:30 Eastern Time (4:30 Pacific). Meanwhile, MSNBC relates that astronomers have found something odd: A new and intense type of radio burst has &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2007\/09\/28\/272\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}