{"id":32807,"date":"2019-02-22T06:14:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32807"},"modified":"2019-02-22T06:14:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T06:14:54","slug":"japanese-space-probe-set-to-fire-bullet-into-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32807","title":{"rendered":"Japanese space probe set to fire bullet into asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A Japanese space probe has fired a &#8220;bullet&#8221; into an asteroid as part of a mission to collect rock samples from the celestial body.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The projectile will disturb material from the exterior of asteroid Ryugu which will then float from its surface due to the weak gravitational field.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">These particles will be collected by the probe and eventually brought back to Earth, according to Japanese space agency JAXA, which announced that the Hayabusa 2 craft successfully touched down on on the asteroid on Friday morning Japanese time.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A Japanese space probe has fired a &#8220;bullet&#8221; into an asteroid as part of a mission to collect rock samples from the celestial body.The projectile will disturb material from the exterior of asteroid Ryugu which will then float from its surface due to the weak gravitational field.These particles will be collected by the probe and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}