{"id":2583,"date":"2019-01-20T10:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2019-01-20T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:21:52","slug":"next-meeting-28th-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"Next Meeting 28th January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keith Mosely<\/strong> FRAS, from Monmouth Astronomical Research Society, is coming to talk to us about the BepiColombo joint European\/Japanese mission to investigate the planet Mercury.<br \/>\nUsual time and place, 7:30pm in an upper room at the Kings Head, next to Abergavenny Town Hall.<br \/>\nAll are most welcome<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2564\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2564\" src=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe.jpg 700w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/BepiColombo-probe-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ESA-JAXA BepiColombo probe to Mercury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>BepiColombo<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;is a joint mission of the&nbsp;European Space Agency&nbsp;(ESA) and the&nbsp;Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency&nbsp;(JAXA) to the planet&nbsp;Mercury. &nbsp;The mission comprises two satellites launched together: the&nbsp;<strong>Mercury Planetary Orbiter<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>MPO<\/strong>) and&nbsp;<strong><em>Mio<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>MMO<\/strong>).&nbsp; The mission will perform a comprehensive study of Mercury, including characterization of its&nbsp;magnetic field,&nbsp;magnetosphere, and both interior and surface structure. It was launched on an&nbsp;Ariane 5&nbsp;rocket on 20 October 2018 at 01:45 UTC, with an arrival at Mercury planned for December 2025, after a flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus, and six flybys of Mercury. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BepiColombo\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Mosely FRAS, from Monmouth Astronomical Research Society, is coming to talk to us about the BepiColombo joint European\/Japanese mission to investigate the planet Mercury. Usual time and place, 7:30pm in an upper room at the Kings Head, next to Abergavenny Town Hall. All are most welcome BepiColombo&nbsp;is a joint mission of the&nbsp;European Space Agency&nbsp;(ESA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}