{"id":648538,"date":"2020-03-06T14:52:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648538"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T18:52:30","slug":"first-official-names-given-to-features-on-asteroid-bennu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648538","title":{"rendered":"First official names given to features on asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid Bennu&#8217;s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid&#8217;s southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder\u2014which is so large that it was initially detected from Earth\u2014is officially designated Benben Saxum after the primordial hill that first arose from the dark waters in an ancient Egyptian creation myth.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-03-features-asteroid-bennu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">First official names given to features on asteroid Bennu<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asteroid Bennu&#8217;s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid&#8217;s southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder\u2014which is so large that it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648538","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648538\/revisions"}],"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=648538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}