{"id":227,"date":"2023-05-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=227&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=227"},"modified":"2023-05-07T11:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T16:11:36","slug":"asteroid-eros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/11\/asteroid-eros\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Eros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote the first part of <em>Heavenly Potato,<\/em> I had been reading about asteroids, and came across the mention of Eros.&nbsp; The shape of it reminded me of a potato, and the images NASA has of it could be an inspection of a potato in black and white.&nbsp; It is rather interesting to look at when you consider the size and shape of this rock that is orbiting the sun.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of good fun astronomy to be found on the NASA website, but for today, the information about Eros comes from the asteroid section found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/asteroids-comets-and-meteors\/overview\/\">Overview | Asteroids, Comets &amp; Meteors \u2013 NASA Solar System Exploration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part of my intent with the way I started the Potato story, was to use a resemblance to science in the way the story unfolds.&nbsp; My thought was that I could use something that an astronomer might know as a valid reference point.&nbsp; Eros was what I chose for that.<\/p>\n<p>First, Eros is an object that has been know for more than a hundred years.&nbsp; Second, it was the first asteroid to be orbited by a spacecraft.&nbsp; It is historic.<\/p>\n<p>Third, and probably the thing that I was most looking for, it is relatively large.&nbsp; It is about 33 km x 13 km x 13 km.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<pre><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote the first part of Heavenly Potato, I had been reading about asteroids, and came across the mention of Eros.&nbsp; The shape of it reminded me of a potato, and the images NASA has of it could be an inspection of a potato in black and white.&nbsp; It is rather interesting to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,22,10],"tags":[90,91,89,93,92],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-science","category-technology","category-writing-thoughts","tag-asteroid","tag-astronomy","tag-eros","tag-nasa","tag-near"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}