{"id":783834,"date":"2026-07-07T01:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:55:10","slug":"china-releases-first-photo-of-an-asteroid-some-consider-earths-quasi-moon-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783834\/","title":{"rendered":"China releases first photo of an asteroid some consider Earth\u2019s \u2018quasi moon\u2019 &#8211; NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxNOFpJbFJ5SFVoQWp1NlREb1lDOFJqdlQxZzlSbnJZbXZELWFmZW8zVm5UU05iOW1aeGpJNkZrOGRocjQtRE1qQ1JsV3NxY3VoaTZldEZlaWVrUldUZGlRR1VhU3ZBZXhfM3ZSOF9uN1RJenlkM2dHTUNHTDR0LUM3aXBuMUV3QTFGR25FOFBqVUp3MGJMaU9lM0wxWVgzbjg2YThFbllMYw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China releases first photo of an asteroid some consider Earth\u2019s \u2018quasi moon\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxQWVVFaVk5cnlaWU5vLUJGeFBiVHk4bzctSlJGWjVnVWxxcGFDSU1wUHV1WEwxVXo5THo5Vk81RXRVNWJIMXJIZE1Nd25YOGU0ZXJ4VDA2S01oUVMxeGdUMjhjRDh3TVBMYUJ2aUxOWEhjbU9yT0RVWnpQdndJNHVmaWUxYU9IWHp0bUVsM3VCMnp2a2EteU5UczVzaC05eU9rRGRBTmQ1UWlTa3dpdzBYbnp1dmlXdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 beams back first image of Earth\u2019s \u201cmini moon\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Scientific American<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMifkFVX3lxTFA5WGQ4VGczTGprdU9SMXlfVWRjQ1NwenpRaTVIX2lfVUdpNW00MjBXUmlrNlBDOXE3S0NYc0Nrb2Z6b29CazVNTkpSV3NEWTVWYUlPOVJXaEJfc0xmMjN6dURjWjlDWjFuYXU5bW5WLTZxY0ZicEU1aDU4YlhjZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1-billion-km flight brings Tianwen 2 to target asteroid<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;China Daily<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuwFBVV95cUxQdTRsZmhHWnhBZ2hYXzNsYlF2eTVsTWJjTk1DQmtmWTFBenlwekgzR0VyMlE0WU0tR05Ta2JzLV9qTTNuaC1hT2lzNmVRVW1YWmgxSm44eDgwUDhkS18yM2JVSVZmU1BDS1VETEJQNVYtQmwwY3lrcFBsN0VMd2pMblZRbk1RTkc4c0h6SV92RHBhaHZHcmhEYWZLczY1NnRrX1FwVGdPZDhsS0xNc2RZOVRCVUJtNW9LTGJ3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Could this asteroid be a piece of the Moon? A Chinese spacecraft is about to find out<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxOX1F4cFdKbl9rUUdRcG9FZ3VoM3o0WjBYUE1VYTRkM1laelE5NlVBbWFrRUNYbFBiMXFrZWdMWlVHSkgwVjliMldZQk5mNlFLTXRYTkV2RmhfR3Z2d3Q4MHpLZDAyRzZwTGZPWVBJU3dxWkZHUi1oVFcxbm1FZFpGYlFJZ1o2TkluaXBLRW5Dc3NZN2Z6VUdV0gGXAUFVX3lxTE9RTlpBQW9OMTNQZ1cyaFByeGpZcEJCRUlKYVpmVm5zdkhBWGl3MWE5UW5kNGhTSDVtQXdEQWdQaFVUMzZNQnRyOEl1V0pROUx6UjFudW5uZFc1SW1Va1BTbmpZSXVlemsyWC1NdkJJV2dmTndkR0hiOXd6SnowQ3JVaGhRM1lKQTk2alRxQ1VuOE1ndC15RG8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese Tianwen-2 space probe reaches asteroid for sampling<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;dw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China releases first photo of an asteroid some consider Earth\u2019s \u2018quasi moon\u2019&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC NewsChinese spacecraft Tianwen-2 beams back first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-783834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}