{"id":69912,"date":"2018-12-04T02:29:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/04\/nasa-probe-reaches-bennu-asteroid-that-could-one-day-hit-earth\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T02:29:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T01:29:03","slug":"nasa-probe-reaches-bennu-asteroid-that-could-one-day-hit-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69912","title":{"rendered":"Nasa probe reaches Bennu \u2013 asteroid that could one day hit Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Osiris-Rex spacecraft will eventually scoop up material for analysis back homeAfter a two-year chase, a Nasa probe has reached the ancient asteroid Bennu. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19km) of the diamond-shaped object on Monday and will go into orbit around it on 31 December. No spacecraft has ever orbited such a small body.Bennu is considered a potentially hazardous asteroid \u2013 it is due to make a close pass of Earth about 150 years. If it collided with Earth, Bennu would probably cause a crater. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/dec\/04\/nasa-osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid\" target=\"_blank\">Nasa probe reaches Bennu \u2013 asteroid that could one day hit Earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osiris-Rex spacecraft will eventually scoop up material for analysis back homeAfter a two-year chase, a Nasa probe has reached the ancient asteroid Bennu. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19km) of the diamond-shaped object on Monday and will go into orbit around it on 31 December. No spacecraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}