{"id":765071,"date":"2023-09-07T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765071"},"modified":"2023-09-07T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:00:49","slug":"asteroid-hit-by-nasa-spacecraft-is-behaving-unexpectedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765071","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock&#8217;s orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded &#8211; but Dimorphos&#8217; orbit has continued to shrink and it isn&#8217;t clear why&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2391083-asteroid-hit-by-nasa-spacecraft-is-behaving-unexpectedly\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New Scientist &#8211; Space&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock&#8217;s orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded &#8211; but Dimorphos&#8217; orbit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765071","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=765071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765071\/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=765071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}