{"id":685940,"date":"2021-04-01T12:29:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685940"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:29:40","slug":"nasa-osiris-rexs-final-asteroid-observation-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=685940","title":{"rendered":"NASA OSIRIS-REx&#039;s final asteroid observation run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu&#8217;s surface during last fall&#8217;s sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid&#8217;s surface. While performing the flyover, the spacecraft will observe Bennu from a distance of about 2.3 miles (3.7 km)\u2014the closest it&#8217;s been since the Touch-and-Go Sample Collection event on Oct. 20, 2020.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA OSIRIS-REx&#8217;s final asteroid observation run<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu&#8217;s surface during last fall&#8217;s sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the&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-685940","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\/685940","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=685940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685940\/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=685940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}