{"id":651888,"date":"2020-04-14T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651888"},"modified":"2020-04-14T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:15:00","slug":"100th-lunar-asteroid-collision-confirmed-by-second-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651888","title":{"rendered":"100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/100th_asteroid_impact_jointly_detected_at_the_Moon_card_full.gif\" alt=\"100th asteroid impact jointly detected at the Moon\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Since March 2017, ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/neliota.astro.noa.gr\/\" title=\"NELIOTA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NELIOTA<\/a><\/b><b>\u00a0project has been regularly looking out for \u2018lunar flashes\u2019 on <\/b><b>the Moon, to help us better understand the threat posed by small asteroid impacts. The project detects the flash of light produced when an asteroid collides energetically with the lunar surface, and recently recorded its 100<sup>th<\/sup> impact. But this time, it was not the only one watching.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/100th_lunar_asteroid_collision_confirmed_by_second_telescope\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">100th lunar asteroid collision confirmed by second telescope<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since March 2017, ESA\u2019s NELIOTA\u00a0project has been regularly looking out for \u2018lunar flashes\u2019 on the Moon, to help us better understand the threat posed by small asteroid impacts. The project&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651889,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651888","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\/651888","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=651888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}