{"id":172859,"date":"2013-01-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"56cb2229a93a9fcb3252e25cc16bc41f"},"modified":"2013-01-09T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T11:00:00","slug":"herschel%e2%80%99s-three-colour-view-of-asteroid-apophis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=172859","title":{"rendered":"Herschel\u2019s three-colour view of asteroid Apophis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/01\/herschel_s_three-colour_view_of_asteroid_apophis\/12474121-1-eng-GB\/Herschel_s_three-colour_view_of_asteroid_Apophis_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on 5\/6 January 2013. This image shows the asteroid in Herschel\u2019s three PACS wavelengths: 70, 100 and 160 microns, respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts closest pass, on 9 January 2013, brings it to 14.45 million km from Earth, 35\u201340 times that of the distance of the Moon. In 2029, it will approach even closer than the geostationary orbit of many satellites, which are positioned at an altitude of 36 000 km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the latest pass, Herschel collected important information about the physical properties of the asteroid, which will help astronomers make refined predictions for the future trajectory of the asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead the full news story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Herschel_intercepts_asteroid_apophis\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/01\/herschel_s_three-colour_view_of_asteroid_apophis\/12474121-1-eng-GB\/Herschel_s_three-colour_view_of_asteroid_Apophis_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on 5\/6 January 2013. This image shows the asteroid in Herschel\u2019s three PACS wavelengths: 70, 100 and 160 microns, respectively.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts closest pass, on 9 January 2013, brings it to 14.45 million km from Earth, 35\u201340 times that of the distance of the Moon. In 2029, it will approach even closer than the geostationary orbit of many satellites, which are positioned at an altitude of 36 000 km.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the latest pass, Herschel collected important information about the physical properties of the asteroid, which will help astronomers make refined predictions for the future trajectory of the asteroid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead the full news story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Herschel_intercepts_asteroid_apophis\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}