{"id":10972,"date":"2020-09-23T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2020-09-27T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:44:50","slug":"our-new-mini-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/23\/our-new-mini-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Mini-moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/mystery-object-entering-earths-orbit-22729257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Daily Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mystery object entering Earth&#8217;s orbit &#8216;to become planet&#8217;s mini-moon until May&#8217;<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>An object known as 2020 SO is heading towards Earth, and could stay in orbit of the planet from October until May next year \u2013 although some think it could just be space junk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/authors\/joshua-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday (Official Music Video)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3a4OTh2Y8w?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earth could be about to get a new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/latest\/space\" target=\"_blank\">moon<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 but experts have been left baffled at what the mystery object actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/latest\/asteroids\" target=\"_blank\">object<\/a>\u00a0known as 2020 SO is heading towards Earth and from October it will be a &#8220;mini-moon&#8221;, which could stay in orbit of the planet until May next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another object, named 3753 Cruithne, has already been dubbed Earth&#8217;s &#8220;second moon&#8221; \u2013 meaning 2020 SO would be our third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cruithne is in a normal elliptic orbit around the Sun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its period of revolution around the Sun, approximately 364 days at present, is almost equal to that of Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/mystery-object-entering-earths-orbit-22729257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Mystery object entering Earth&#8217;s orbit &#8216;to become planet&#8217;s mini-moon until May&#8217; An object known as 2020 SO is heading towards Earth, and could stay in orbit of the planet from October until May next year \u2013 although some think it could just be space junk By Joshua Smith Earth could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}