{"id":609828,"date":"2019-04-22T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=86ea9a6dda54ad5b38bd950a618c6dd2"},"modified":"2019-04-22T01:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:51:00","slug":"earth-vs-asteroids-humans-strike-back-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609828","title":{"rendered":"Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back"},"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\/2019\/04\/sci_impactor_on_way_to_ryugu_asteroid\/19359282-2-eng-GB\/SCI_impactor_on_way_to_Ryugu_asteroid_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIncoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp\/en\/\">Hayabusa2<\/a> spacecraft dropped a copper projectile at very high speed in an attempt to form a crater on asteroid Ryugu. A much bigger asteroid impact is planned for the coming decade, involving an international double-spacecraft mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan\u2019s Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a copper projectile at very high speed in an attemp&#8230;<\/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-609828","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\/609828","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=609828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613121,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609828\/revisions\/613121"}],"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=609828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}