{"id":112109,"date":"2009-12-29T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2162319"},"modified":"2009-12-29T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T22:06:00","slug":"pluto-probe-closes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112109","title":{"rendered":"Pluto probe closes in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=textBodyBlack><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1 width=298 align=right><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD>&nbsp;<\/TD><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/091229-coslog-newhorizons-hmed-9a.standard.jpg\" width=298 height=239><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">NASA \/ JHU APL<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD>&nbsp;<\/TD><br \/>\n<TD><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">An artist&#8217;s conception shows New Horizons at Pluto.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P class=textBodyBlack>NASA&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\">New Horizons<\/A> probe passed a key milestone today on its nine-year journey and is now closer to Pluto, its primary target, than it is to Earth. But it still has more than five years&nbsp;and&nbsp;more than 1.5&nbsp;billion miles to go.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The 1,054-pound (480-kilogram) piano-sized spacecraft <A href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10927034\/\">blasted off<\/A> for the solar system&#8217;s most controversial dwarf planet almost four years ago. New Horizons&nbsp;was the fastest spacecraft ever launched from Earth, and thanks to&nbsp;a gravitational boost from Jupiter, it&#8217;s closing in on Pluto at the rate of 750,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) per day.&nbsp;The&nbsp;probe&nbsp;is due to&nbsp;zoom past&nbsp;Pluto and its three moons on July 14, 2015.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/12\/29\/2162319.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2162319\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NASA \/ JHU APL &nbsp; An artist&#8217;s conception shows New Horizons at Pluto. NASA&#8217;s New Horizons probe passed a key milestone today on its nine-year journey and is now closer to Pluto, its primary target, than it is to Earth. But it still has more than five years&nbsp;and&nbsp;more than 1.5&nbsp;billion miles to go. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}