{"id":918375,"date":"2026-07-08T17:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/chinas-tianwen-2-spacecraft-reaches-earths-quasi-moon-after-one-billion-kilometer-journey\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:14:19","slug":"chinas-tianwen-2-spacecraft-reaches-earths-quasi-moon-after-one-billion-kilometer-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/chinas-tianwen-2-spacecraft-reaches-earths-quasi-moon-after-one-billion-kilometer-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Reaches Earth\u2019s Quasi-Moon after One Billion-Kilometer Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, one of only seven Earth quasi-satellites identified to date, kicking off a science campaign ahead of an eventual sample-return attempt.<br \/>\nThe post China\u2019s Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Reaches Earth\u2019s Quasi-Moon after One Billion-Kilometer Journey appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/space\/tianwen-2-earths-quasi-moon-2016-ho3-14897.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Bong Catt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, one of only seven Earth quasi-satellites identified to date, kicking off a science campaign ahead of an eventual sample-return attempt. The post China\u2019s Tianwen-2 Spacecraft Reaches Earth\u2019s Quasi-Moon after One Billion-Kilometer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22042,536,40652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chinas","category-science-nature","category-tianwen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}