{"id":770821,"date":"2023-10-30T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770821"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T19:05:03","slug":"data-from-nasas-wise-used-to-preview-lucy-missions-asteroid-dinkinesh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770821","title":{"rendered":"Data from NASA&#039;s WISE used to preview Lucy mission&#039;s asteroid Dinkinesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter&#8217;s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 kilometers) from the surface of the small asteroid Dinkinesh, researchers have used 13-year-old infrared data from NASA&#8217;s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to support the mission&#8217;s flyby. Their new study provides updated estimates of the asteroid&#8217;s size and albedo\u2014a measurement of surface reflectivity\u2014that could help scientists better understand the nature of some near-Earth objects.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-nasa-wise-preview-lucy-mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data from NASA&#8217;s WISE used to preview Lucy mission&#8217;s asteroid Dinkinesh<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter&#8217;s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425&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-770821","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\/770821","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=770821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770821\/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=770821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}