{"id":10860,"date":"2019-01-02T10:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=10860"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:23:32","slug":"in-orbit-around-asteroid-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=10860","title":{"rendered":"In orbit around asteroid Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s official! I&#39;m in orbit around <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/asteroid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#asteroid<\/a> Bennu &#8212; now the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. My snug path around the asteroid also sets a new record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by any spacecraft. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyNewYear?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyNewYear<\/a>, indeed! More \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fwL3FEVU9m\">https:\/\/t.co\/fwL3FEVU9m<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ceavR7ju6i\">pic.twitter.com\/ceavR7ju6i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NASA&#39;s OSIRIS-REx (@OSIRISREx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OSIRISREx\/status\/1079858534278344704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomie","category-exploration-spaciale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10861,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10860\/revisions\/10861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}