{"id":677631,"date":"2026-07-07T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677631\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:46:08","slug":"china-releases-first-photo-of-an-asteroid-some-consider-earths-quasi-moon-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/677631\/","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\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxOX1F4cFdKbl9rUUdRcG9FZ3VoM3o0WjBYUE1VYTRkM1laelE5NlVBbWFrRUNYbFBiMXFrZWdMWlVHSkgwVjliMldZQk5mNlFLTXRYTkV2RmhfR3Z2d3Q4MHpLZDAyRzZwTGZPWVBJU3dxWkZHUi1oVFcxbm1FZFpGYlFJZ1o2TkluaXBLRW5Dc3NZN2Z6VUdV0gGXAUFVX3lxTE9RTlpBQW9OMTNQZ1cyaFByeGpZcEJCRUlKYVpmVm5zdkhBWGl3MWE5UW5kNGhTSDVtQXdEQWdQaFVUMzZNQnRyOEl1V0pROUx6UjFudW5uZFc1SW1Va1BTbmpZSXVlemsyWC1NdkJJV2dmTndkR0hiOXd6SnowQ3JVaGhRM1lKQTk2alRxQ1VuOE1ndC15RG8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese Tianwen-2 space probe reaches asteroid for sampling<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;DW.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijAFBVV95cUxPcmh6YTAzaVRMQ3BmMVJzNEdPd05wSUFLbW9MUHdMRnFHMF9WRlR6RDVzSmNWRENldi1UOGZyN0loaTE3Smx0NmJBQUNYZ0lyNXg4Q0VTYUJYbzVwQ0U2OTVmRHFIdjhmT2lUM3ZkMHRvMGkzb21iRmRFRlh4WERrOUFQUFJDNjVRWFNpcA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tianwen-2 arrives at asteroid Kamo\u2019oalewa, first image revealed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;SpaceNews<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxQUHZBLUJXUzM3SXZ4UG1kVHdTN1QzTkxRVDdsbzd1Z2YzSDd3RkRxbnJLNWFQSldHeVJXZkVoWG5tSnFYaTFydEZxbzFxZFBMZGtNdEJJTVVoaThpTTRFaUNES2xObjU3VEltMG5DZ3pId2xvZEVuUS1QYlNjN1NGOFlUeEl1LXg1SzNPX2JSYXlHR1NKbmZUSHViTDZsNGhfX0dfd3JtY3ZVcHpBLUVkWXNRMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A Chinese Spacecraft Just Arrived At Earth\u2019s \u2018Quasi Moon\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Forbes<\/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":677632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-677631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}