{"id":508162,"date":"2018-08-13T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=de747ac35401fa42fa94cd81eca3f6a9"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:30:01","slug":"earth-mini-moons-potential-for-exciting-scientific-and-commercial-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=508162","title":{"rendered":"Earth mini-moons: Potential for exciting scientific and commercial opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The detection of &#8220;mini-moons&#8221;\u2014small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth\u2014will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. These small and fast-moving visitors have so-far evaded detection by existing technology, with only one confirmed mini-moon discovery to date. The advent of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will verify their existence and track their paths around our planet, presenting exciting scientific and commercial opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detection of &#8220;mini-moons&#8221;&mdash;small asteroids temporarily captured in orbit around Earth&mdash;will vastly improve our scientific understanding of asteroids and the Earth-Moon system, says a new review published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science. These small and fast-moving visitors have so-far evaded detection by existing technology, with only one confirmed mini-moon discovery to date. The advent of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will verify their existence and track their paths around our planet, presenting exciting scientific and commercial opportunities.<\/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-508162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508162","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=508162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508163,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508162\/revisions\/508163"}],"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=508162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}