{"id":2759,"date":"2019-03-19T17:33:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T12:03:50","slug":"japan-to-make-crater-on-asteroid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/japan-to-make-crater-on-asteroid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to make crater on asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has said that\nits Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop an explosive on the asteroid Ryugu to make a\ncrater. It would do so collect underground samples for possible clues to the\norigin of the solar system. <\/li><li>In February, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had successfully\ntouched down on the boulder-rich asteroid Ryugu. It had then collected some\nsurface fragments.<\/li><li>Hayabusa 2 is a Japanese spacecraft launched in\nDecember 2014 on a six-year mission. It seeks to study the asteroid Ryugu and\nto collect samples to bring to Earth for analysis. It will bring the asteroid\nsample to Earth in 2020.<\/li><li>Asteroid Ryugu is a near-Earth object and a\npotentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group. A near-Earth object (NEO)\nis any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it to proximity with Earth. A\npotentially hazardous object is a NEO (asteroid or a comet) with an orbit that\ncan make exceptionally close approaches to the Earth. It is large enough to\ncause significant regional damage in the event of impact. The Apollo asteroids\nare a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo. 1862 Apollo is an\nasteroid discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in 1930s. <\/li><li>The Hayabusa2 mission is a follow-up to Japan\u2019s\noriginal Hayabusa mission which took samples from asteroid Itokawa. It was the first\nspacecraft to take samples from an asteroid and also the first mission to\nsuccessfully land and take off from an asteroid. It returned the samples from\nasteroid to Earth in 2010.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has said that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop an explosive on the asteroid Ryugu to make a crater. It would do so collect underground samples for possible clues to the origin of the solar system. In February, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft had successfully touched down on the boulder-rich asteroid Ryugu. It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/japan-to-make-crater-on-asteroid-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan to make crater on asteroid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2257],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-hayabusa2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902011},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}