{"id":3927005,"date":"2026-07-15T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/after-traveling-a-billion-kilometers-chinas-asteroid-hunter-finally-arrives\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:04:18","slug":"after-traveling-a-billion-kilometers-chinas-asteroid-hunter-finally-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/after-traveling-a-billion-kilometers-chinas-asteroid-hunter-finally-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"After traveling a billion kilometers, China&#8217;s asteroid hunter finally arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Earth? For China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 mission, the answer was a 400-day chase covering roughly 1 billion kilometers (621 million miles) of deep space\u2014one that has just ended in success. The China National Space Administration has confirmed that the probe has rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid Kamo\u02bboalewa, also known as 2016 HO3, closing to within about 20 kilometers (12 miles) and officially beginning its scientific exploration phase.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-billion-kilometers-china-asteroid-hunter.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take to catch up with a small, tumbling rock hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Earth? For China&#8217;s Tianwen-2 mission, the answer was a 400-day chase covering roughly 1 billion kilometers (621 million miles) of deep space\u2014one that has just ended in success. The China National Space Administration has confirmed that the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}