{"id":737777,"date":"2022-10-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737777"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:00:00","slug":"nasas-lucy-to-fly-past-thousands-of-objects-for-earth-gravity-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737777","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Lucy to Fly Past Thousands of Objects for Earth Gravity Assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mission engineers will track NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use this planet\u2019s gravity to set itself on a course toward the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.  But  they also will be closely tracking something else: more than 47,000 satellites, debris, and other objects circling our planet.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/nasa-s-lucy-to-fly-past-thousands-of-objects-for-earth-gravity-assist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA\u2019s Lucy to Fly Past Thousands of Objects for Earth Gravity Assist<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NASA Goddard Center&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission engineers will track NASA\u2019s Lucy spacecraft nonstop as it prepares to swoop near Earth on Oct. 16 to use this planet\u2019s gravity to set itself on a course toward&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goddard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737777","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=737777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737777\/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=737777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}