{"id":1859,"date":"2026-07-21T19:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-turns-out-to-be-comet-with-weak-tail\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T19:21:38","slug":"puzzling-near-earth-asteroid-turns-out-to-be-comet-with-weak-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/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":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14933_1-1998-SH2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"This artist\u2019s concept depicts a near-Earth asteroid with an elongated orbit; a few objects such as these can exhibit significant perturbations in their motion around the Sun and, like 1998 SH2, could turn out to be regular comets with a weak tail and coma. Image credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/p-1998-sh2-comet-14933.html\">Puzzling Near-Earth Asteroid Turns Out to Be Comet with Weak Tail<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}