{"id":369730,"date":"2017-09-07T07:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d7d4821fbe48717b0dbffa2673c36b32"},"modified":"2017-09-07T07:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T11:40:02","slug":"ground-based-telescopes-to-photograph-nasas-osiris-rex-during-earth-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=369730","title":{"rendered":"Ground-based telescopes to photograph NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx during Earth flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 22, NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security \u2013 Regolith Explorer) spacecraft will make a close approach to Earth, using the planet&#8217;s gravity to slingshot itself toward the asteroid Bennu. Over the course of several days, observatories and amateur astronomers with specialized equipment will be able to see OSIRIS-REx as the spacecraft approaches and retreats from its closest position over Earth, approximately 11,000 miles (17,000 km) above the planet&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 22, NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security &ndash; Regolith Explorer) spacecraft will make a close approach to Earth, using the planet&#8217;s gravity to slingshot itself toward the asteroid Bennu. Over the course of several days, observatories and amateur astronomers with specialized equipment will be able to see OSIRIS-REx as the spacecraft approaches and retreats from its closest position over Earth, approximately 11,000 miles (17,000 km) above the planet&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369730","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369731,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369730\/revisions\/369731"}],"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=369730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}