{"id":8792,"date":"2012-12-15T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:32:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:32:01","slug":"chinese-space-probe-flies-by-asteroid-toutatis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8792","title":{"rendered":"Chinese space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The flyby was the first time an unmanned spacecraft launched from Earth has taken such a close viewing of the asteroid, named after a Celtic god.<\/p>\n<p>It also made China the fourth country after the United States, the European Union and Japan to be able to examine an asteroid by spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chang&#8217;e-2 came as close as 3.2 km from Toutatis<\/strong> and took pictures of the asteroid at a relative velocity of 10.73 km per second, the SASTIND said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/nsp\/National\/2012\/12\/15\/Chinese%2Bspace%2Bprobe%2Bflies%2Bby%2Basteroid%2BToutatis\/\">Chinese space probe flies by asteroid Toutatis &#8212; Shanghai Daily | \u4e0a\u6d77\u65e5\u62a5 &#8212; English Window to China New<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flyby was the first time an unmanned spacecraft launched from Earth has taken such a close viewing of the asteroid, named after a Celtic god. It also made China the fourth country after the United States, the European Union &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8792\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1197,277],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-asteroids","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11155,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}