{"id":7718,"date":"2016-09-14T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2016-09-03T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T10:04:13","slug":"osiris-rex-asteroid-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/14\/osiris-rex-asteroid-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"OSIRIS-REx &#8211; Asteroid Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2016\/0818\/NASA-greenlights-OSIRIS-REx-for-asteroid-hunt\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Christian Science Monitor\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>NASA greenlights OSIRIS-REx for asteroid hunt<\/h1>\n<p><em>On September 8, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu to collect samples to send back to Earth. The asteroid may provide hints about the formation of planets and the origins of life on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2016\/0818\/NASA-greenlights-OSIRIS-REx-for-asteroid-hunt#\" target=\"_blank\">Weston Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.csmonitor.com\/csm\/2016\/08\/998590_1_0818-bennu-osiris_standard.jpg?alias=standard_600x400\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><em>NASA\/\/Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On September 8 at 7:05 a.m. Eastern time, NASA plans to launch a historic probe to rendezvous with a nearby asteroid.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, a NASA probe will send pieces of an asteroid back home for study on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>So far, everything seems to be a go for the mission. NASA confirmed details about the probe,\u00a0the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer or OSIRIS-REx, Wednesday in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-prepares-to-launch-first-us-asteroid-sample-return-mission\" target=\"_self\">the probe will carry<\/a>\u00a0a camera system, multiple types of spectrometers, and a laser\u00a0altimeter\u00a0to map the shape of the asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2016\/0818\/NASA-greenlights-OSIRIS-REx-for-asteroid-hunt\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CS Monitor<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Christian Science Monitor\u00a0 NASA greenlights OSIRIS-REx for asteroid hunt On September 8, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu to collect samples to send back to Earth. The asteroid may provide hints about the formation of planets and the origins of life on Earth. By Weston Williams NASA\/\/Reuters On September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}