{"id":175378,"date":"2023-11-04T03:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-swoops-past-first-of-10-asteroids-on-long-journey-to-jupiter"},"modified":"2023-11-04T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T08:22:24","slug":"nasas-lucy-spacecraft-swoops-past-first-of-10-asteroids-on-long-journey-to-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-swoops-past-first-of-10-asteroids-on-long-journey-to-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-lucy-spacecraft-swoops-past-first-of-10-asteroids-on-long-journey-to-jupiter2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/spacecraft\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spacecraft<\/a> on Wednesday swooped past the pint-sized Dinkinesh, about 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/main+asteroid+belt\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">main asteroid belt<\/a> beyond Mars. It was \u201ca quick hello,\u201d according to NASA, with the spacecraft zooming by at 10,000 mph (16,000 kph).<\/p>\n<p>Lucy came within 270 miles (435 kilometers) of Dinkinesh, testing its instruments in a dry run for the bigger and more alluring asteroids ahead. Dinkinesh is just a half-mile (1 kilometer) across, quite possibly the smallest of the space rocks on Lucy\u2019s tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft on Wednesday swooped past the pint-sized Dinkinesh, about 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars. It was \u201ca quick hello,\u201d according to NASA, with the spacecraft zooming by at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}