{"id":11792,"date":"2021-11-28T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11792"},"modified":"2021-11-29T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:13:52","slug":"rockin-around-the-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/11\/28\/rockin-around-the-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockin&#8217; Around The Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/large-asteroid-stronger-than-nuke-heading-towards-earth-late-december-687091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Large asteroid stronger than nuke heading towards Earth late December<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2018 AH is estimated to be around 190 meters long, similar to the Tunguska asteroid, meaning it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/author\/aaron-reich\" target=\"_blank\">AARON REICH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/t_JD_ArticleMainImageFaceDetect\/487974\" alt=\" Asteroid (illustrative) (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)\" title=\" Asteroid (illustrative)\"\/><figcaption><em>(photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A large\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/asteroid\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a>\u00a0the size of the Washington Monument is heading for Earth in late December that, if it impacts, would cause devastation far greater than an atomic bomb, according to NASA&#8217;s asteroid tracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Known as 2018 AH, this asteroid is estimated to be about 190 meters wide and is set to pass by the Earth on December 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The asteroid is unlikely to hit the planet, however, expected to pass by at a distance of more than 4.5 million kilometers. For comparison, the distance between the Earth and the Moon is around 384,000 km. \u2013 about a twelfth of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/large-asteroid-stronger-than-nuke-heading-towards-earth-late-december-687091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at JP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Jerusalem Post Large asteroid stronger than nuke heading towards Earth late December 2018 AH is estimated to be around 190 meters long, similar to the Tunguska asteroid, meaning it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb. By\u00a0AARON REICH A large\u00a0asteroid\u00a0the size of the Washington Monument is heading for Earth in late [&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-11792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792","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=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}