{"id":736031,"date":"2022-09-26T06:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736031"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:11:12","slug":"move-over-bruce-willis-nasa-is-shoving-an-asteroid-to-test-planetary-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=736031","title":{"rendered":"Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA is shoving an asteroid to test planetary defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dart-zoom_bkg-nologos1_wide-b721227add588aaa9cc0e2ae2f05882fe3cf1d89.jpg\" alt=\"This illustration shows the DART spacecraft approaching the two asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos, with a small observing spacecraft nearby.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood likes to blow up incoming asteroids with nukes, but NASA&#8217;s first test of whether it can change the trajectory of a space rock will try just giving one a little nudge.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins APL\/Steve Gribben)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/npr-rss-pixel-17.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/26\/1124340144\/nasa-dart-shove-asteroid-first-test-planetary-defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA is shoving an asteroid to test planetary defense<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood likes to blow up incoming asteroids with nukes, but NASA&#8217;s first test of whether it can change the trajectory of a space rock will try just giving one a&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-736031","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\/736031","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=736031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736031\/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=736031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}