{"id":574694,"date":"2019-02-04T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e077873a417a2aef6d1ca1af35b8ffe6"},"modified":"2019-02-04T03:16:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:16:00","slug":"esa-plans-mission-to-smallest-asteroid-ever-visited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=574694","title":{"rendered":"ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/05\/hera_at_didymos\/15359916-7-eng-GB\/Hera_at_Didymos_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system \u2013 the Didymos pair \u2013 but the smaller of these two worldlets, comparable in size to Egypt\u2019s Great Pyramid of Giza, will become the smallest asteroid ever visited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/05\/hera_at_didymos\/15359916-7-eng-GB\/Hera_at_Didymos_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&rsquo;s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system &ndash; the Didymos pair &ndash; but the smaller of these two worldlets, comparable in size to Egypt&rsquo;s Great Pyramid of Giza, will become the smallest asteroid ever visited.<\/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-574694","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\/574694","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=574694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574695,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574694\/revisions\/574695"}],"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=574694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}