{"id":656670,"date":"2020-06-01T15:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=656670"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:21:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:21:46","slug":"why-asteroids-bennu-and-ryugu-have-their-signature-spinning-top-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=656670","title":{"rendered":"Why asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have their signature &#039;spinning-top&#039; shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with NASA&#8217;s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are gaining a new understanding of asteroid Bennu&#8217;s carbon-rich material and signature &#8220;spinning-top&#8221; shape. The team has discovered that the asteroid&#8217;s shape and hydration levels provide clues to the origins and histories of this and other small bodies.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/06\/200601152146.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Why asteroids Bennu and Ryugu have their signature &#8216;spinning-top&#8217; shapes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists with NASA&#8217;s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are gaining a new understanding of asteroid Bennu&#8217;s carbon-rich material and signature &#8220;spinning-top&#8221; shape. The team has discovered that the asteroid&#8217;s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656670","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=656670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656670\/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=656670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}