{"id":9469,"date":"2018-12-08T22:59:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2018-12-16T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:02:19","slug":"bienvenue-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/08\/bienvenue-bennu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bienvenue Bennu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/144355e6b43a4202936456caacc80775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from AP<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor<\/h1>\n<p>By MARCIA DUNN<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NYGHbl_esgw\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years.<\/p>\n<p>The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19 kilometers) of the diamond-shaped space rock. It will get even closer in the days ahead and go into orbit around Bennu on Dec. 31. No spacecraft has ever orbited such a small cosmic body.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first U.S. attempt to gather asteroid samples for return to Earth, something only Japan has accomplished so far.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/144355e6b43a4202936456caacc80775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19 kilometers) of the diamond-shaped space rock. [&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-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}