{"id":658792,"date":"2020-06-23T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658792"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T12:39:00","slug":"name-given-to-asteroid-target-of-esas-planetary-defence-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658792","title":{"rendered":"Name given to asteroid target of ESA\u2019s planetary defence mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Didymos_asteroids_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Didymos asteroids\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The destination of ESA\u2019s Hera mission for planetary defence \u2013 a tiny asteroid moonlet \u2013 has finally received its official name. After years of informal nicknames and temporary designations, the smaller of the Didymos asteroid pair has been formally christened \u2018Dimorphos\u2019 by the International Astronomical Union.<\/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\/Hera\/Name_given_to_asteroid_target_of_ESA_s_planetary_defence_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Name given to asteroid target of ESA\u2019s planetary defence mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The destination of ESA\u2019s Hera mission for planetary defence \u2013 a tiny asteroid moonlet \u2013 has finally received its official name. After years of informal nicknames and temporary designations, the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658793,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658792","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\/658792","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=658792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}