{"id":602625,"date":"2019-04-05T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f000c70feef2267c64b5084319b1e904"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:31:00","slug":"japan-very-carefully-drops-plastic-explosives-onto-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=602625","title":{"rendered":"Japan (Very Carefully) Drops Plastic Explosives Onto An Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2019\/04\/05\/hayabusa2_wide-91dbe043f32d0ec8fbaad72fddd99bc7ada7ffab.jpg?s=600' alt='Japan's Hayabusa2, seen in this illustration, has been probing the asteroid Ryugu since 2018. The spacecraft is collecting samples that will be returned to Earth.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The device was detonated as part of a mission to better understand the origins of planets.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: JAXA\/Akihiro Ikeshita)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=710285475' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The device was detonated as part of a mission to better understand the origins of planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602625","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\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602626,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602625\/revisions\/602626"}],"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=602625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}