{"id":38851,"date":"2019-04-05T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38851"},"modified":"2019-04-05T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:22:47","slug":"japan-attempts-to-bomb-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38851","title":{"rendered":"Japan attempts to &#8216;bomb&#8217; asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Japan&#8217;s space agency has attempted to detonate an explosive charge on an asteroid some 195 million miles from Earth, in hopes of creating a crater and collecting samples to shed light on the origin of the solar system. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Hayabusa-2 probe deployed a Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) &#8212; a device packed with plastic explosive &#8212; intended to blast an artificial crater in the asteroid, Ryugu.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After deploying the SCI from the asteroid&#8217;s orbit, Hayabusa-2 moved to a safe distance from the blast site, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Friday. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Japan&#8217;s space agency has attempted to detonate an explosive charge on an asteroid some 195 million miles from Earth, in hopes of creating a crater and collecting samples to shed light on the origin of the solar system. The Hayabusa-2 probe deployed a Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) &#8212; a device packed with plastic explosive &#8211;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38851","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\/38851","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=38851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}