{"id":22692,"date":"2019-05-24T04:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22692"},"modified":"2019-05-24T04:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T04:56:48","slug":"boulders-on-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22692","title":{"rendered":"Boulders on Bennu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1905\/pdco-20190328-up-slope-to-limb.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>An abundance of boulders litters the surface asteroid 101955 Bennu in this dramatic close-up from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Taken on March 28 from a distance of just 3.4 kilometers (2.1 miles) the field of view is about 50 meters across while the light colored boulder at top right is 4.8 meters tall. Likely a loose conglomerate rubble pile asteroid, Bennu itself spans less than 500 meters. That&#8217;s about the height of the Empire State Building. Mapping the near Earth asteroid since the spacecraft&#8217;s arrival in December of 2018, the OSIRIS-REx mission plans a TAG (Touch-and-Go) maneuver for July 2020 to sample Bennu&#8217;s rugged surface, returning the sample to planet Earth in September 2023. Citizen scientists have been invited to help choose the sample collection site. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap190524.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An abundance of boulders litters the surface asteroid 101955 Bennu in this dramatic close-up from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Taken on March 28 from a distance of just 3.4 kilometers (2.1 <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=22692\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-22692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22693,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22692\/revisions\/22693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}