{"id":747775,"date":"2023-02-09T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747775"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:54:16","slug":"more-lunar-missions-means-more-space-junk-around-the-moon-two-astronomers-are-building-a-catalog-to-track-the-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=747775","title":{"rendered":"More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon\u2014two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity&#8217;s starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, people have been leaving trash around the moon, too.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-lunar-missions-space-junk-moontwo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon\u2014two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity&#8217;s starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since&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-747775","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\/747775","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=747775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747775\/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=747775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}