{"id":85414,"date":"2018-12-03T04:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-spacecraft-meets-with-asteroid-today"},"modified":"2018-12-03T04:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:42:36","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-meets-with-asteroid-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/nasa-spacecraft-meets-with-asteroid-today","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft meets with asteroid today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacecraft-meets-with-asteroid-today.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the next year, OSIRIS-REx will survey the asteroid using five scientific instruments on board the spacecraft. These instruments will help it determine a safe location from which to collect a small sample from Bennu\u2019s surface that will be returned to Earth in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBennu\u2019s low gravity provides a unique challenge for the mission,\u201d said Rich Burns, OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center. \u201cAt roughly 0.3 mile in diameter, Bennu will be the smallest object that any spacecraft has ever orbited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/03\/world\/osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-mission-rendezvous\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/03\/world\/osiris-rex-bennu-astero...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next year, OSIRIS-REx will survey the asteroid using five scientific instruments on board the spacecraft. These instruments will help it determine a safe location from which to collect a small sample from Bennu\u2019s surface that will be returned to Earth in September 2023. \u201cBennu\u2019s low gravity provides a unique challenge for the mission,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85414","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}