{"id":551508,"date":"2018-12-04T06:59:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5c9041d4bfdf0b15b56b7493f6b0485d"},"modified":"2018-12-04T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T10:59:33","slug":"nasa-deep-space-probe-reaches-asteroid-deemed-potential-earth-threat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=551508","title":{"rendered":"NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well as the potential to collide with Earth in about 150 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/eOd8Lg6nu1o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s deep space explorer Osiris-Rex flew on Monday to within a dozen miles of its destination, a skyscraper-sized asteroid believed to hold organic compounds fundamental to life as well as the potential to collide with Earth in about 150 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=eOd8Lg6nu1o:8vA7o76yuHY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/eOd8Lg6nu1o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551508","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551509,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551508\/revisions\/551509"}],"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=551508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}