{"id":8669,"date":"2017-09-22T21:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8669"},"modified":"2017-10-07T21:18:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T04:18:10","slug":"asteroid-chasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/22\/asteroid-chasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Chasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b9914323a0074d74aa7a15c626b54adb\/NASA's-asteroid-chaser-swings-by-Earth-on-way-to-space-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"topTitle\">NASA\u2019s asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock<\/h1>\n<p>By MARCIA DUNN<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/media:9bb20817671b47678c45b4d401303b6e\/800.jpeg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NASA\u2019s asteroid-chasing spacecraft swung by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock.<\/p>\n<p>Launched a year ago, Osiris-Rex passed within 10,711 miles (17,237 kilometers) of the home planet early Friday afternoon \u2014 above Antarctica. It used Earth\u2019s gravity as a slingshot to put it on a path toward the asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>Osiris-Rex should reach the small, roundish asteroid next year and, in 2020, collect some of its gravel for return to Earth. If all goes well, scientists should get the samples in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s flyby was a quick hello: The spacecraft zoomed by at about 19,000 mph (31,000 kph). NASA took precautions to ensure Osiris-Rex \u2014 about the size of an SUV \u2014 did not slam into any satellites.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/b9914323a0074d74aa7a15c626b54adb\/NASA's-asteroid-chaser-swings-by-Earth-on-way-to-space-rock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP NASA\u2019s asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 NASA\u2019s asteroid-chasing spacecraft swung by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock. Launched a year ago, Osiris-Rex passed within 10,711 miles (17,237 kilometers) of the home planet early Friday afternoon \u2014 [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","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=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}