{"id":20888,"date":"2010-06-12T22:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hayabusa-just-hours-from-home-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:59:49","slug":"hayabusa-just-hours-from-home-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hayabusa-just-hours-from-home-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Hayabusa just hours from home | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/planetary.org\/image\/Hayabusa-earth-return.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/892a0_Hayabusa-earth-return.jpg\" alt=\"Hayabusa-earth-return\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14755\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The Japanese space probe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/06\/a-piece-of-asteroid-falls-to-earth-in-june-but-in-a-good-way\/\">Hayabusa<\/a> &mdash; which went to the asteroid Itokawa, landed, and took a sample &mdash; is almost back to Earth. Sunday, around 14:00 UT, it will land in Woomera, Australia with its tiny piece of pristine outer space tucked inside. <\/p><p>There&rsquo;s lots to say about this, but I&rsquo;ll just point you first to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2010\/06\/12\/hayabusa-on-the-homestretch-on-return-to-earth\/\">Universe Today<\/a> for the background info, then to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00002544\/\">Emily Lakdawalla at The Planetary Society Blog<\/a>, because as always Emily has tons of info, including where to go to see the recovery live on the web.<\/p><p>If I can roust myself out of bed and have coffee made by 08:00 my time, I&rsquo;ll be watching too. Don&rsquo;t forget to follow <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/elakdawalla\">Emily on Twitter<\/a> to get live updates as they happen!<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vss9Ea-FUmf67EfgmxaK_PCCNBs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/892a0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/vss9Ea-FUmf67EfgmxaK_PCCNBs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/892a0_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/892a0_rHRGLxuK_wA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/892a0_jaPVxH_k6WM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese space probe Hayabusa &mdash; which went to the asteroid Itokawa, landed, and took a sample &mdash; is almost back to Earth. Sunday, around 14:00 UT, it will land in Woomera, Australia with its tiny piece of pristine outer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hayabusa-just-hours-from-home-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}