{"id":407861,"date":"2017-11-24T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=08f0cb9b6c5756d9752b2437f6411330"},"modified":"2017-11-24T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:50:01","slug":"project-lyra-a-mission-to-chase-down-that-interstellar-asteroid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=407861","title":{"rendered":"Project Lyra, a mission to chase down that interstellar asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, the announcement that the first interstellar asteroid triggered a flurry of excitement. Since that time, astronomers have conducted follow-up observations of the object known as 1I\/2017 U1 (aka. &#8216;Oumuamua) and noted some rather interesting things about it. For example, from rapid changes in its brightness, it has been determined that the asteroid is rocky and metallic, and rather oddly-shaped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, the announcement that the first interstellar asteroid triggered a flurry of excitement. Since that time, astronomers have conducted follow-up observations of the object known as 1I\/2017 U1 (aka. &#8216;Oumuamua) and noted some rather interes&#8230;<\/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-407861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407861","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=407861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407862,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407861\/revisions\/407862"}],"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=407861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}