{"id":240624,"date":"2016-04-20T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2c495c7438ae36dcce857ef1dd822bd9"},"modified":"2016-04-20T05:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T09:15:00","slug":"why-an-asteroid-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240624","title":{"rendered":"Why an asteroid mission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/06\/aim_and_cubesats_watch_impact\/15477311-3-eng-GB\/AIM_and_CubeSats_watch_impact_large.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n\t\tWhy does Earth need an asteroid-deflection test? Queen guitarist Brian May, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, UK Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield share their thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tWhy does Earth need an asteroid-deflection test? Queen guitarist Brian May, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, UK Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield share their thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240624","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240625,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240624\/revisions\/240625"}],"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=240624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}