{"id":2097,"date":"2016-09-26T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=2097"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:45","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-rosetta-osiris-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2016\/09\/26\/pythagorean-astronomy-rosetta-osiris-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: Rosetta &amp; OSIRIS-Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image pull-right\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image pull-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/rosetta\/55799-rosetta-at-comet-67p-landscape\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2098\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280-478x338.jpg 478w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>This month sees the start of one mission and the end of another. NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/osiris-rex\">OSIRIS-REx<\/a> mission launched at the start of the month\u00a0to go and study asteroid Bennu, and even bring back a sample to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0the end of the month sees the finale of ESA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rosetta.esa.int\">Rosetta<\/a> mission, which has spent two years studying comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.\u00a0With stunning images accompanied by fascinating results from other instruments, not to mention the plucky little Philae lander, Rossetta has been one of the most exciting missions of recent years.<\/p>\n<p>This month, the Open University&#8217;s Professor Monica Grady tells me\u00a0about comets, asteroids, and these two exciting missions.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2097-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2016_full_PHYSX.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2016_full_PHYSX.mp3\">http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2016_full_PHYSX.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Originally broadcast on 26th September 2016 as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhysphillips.co.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/\">Pythagoras&#8217; Trousers<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiocardiff.org\/\">Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month sees the start of one mission and the end of another. 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Meanwhile,\u00a0the end of the month sees the finale of ESA&#8217;s\u00a0Rosetta mission, which has spent two years studying comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.\u00a0With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":2098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,30,32,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-media","category-pythagorean-astronomy","category-radio-and-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-xP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2016\/09\/Rosetta_at_comet_67P_landscape_1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}