{"id":11994,"date":"2022-03-14T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2022-03-16T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T18:15:36","slug":"stray-space-rock-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/14\/stray-space-rock-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Stray Space Rock Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/article-701110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asteroid impacts Earth just two hours after it was discovered<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The asteroid, 2022 EB5, was small and burnt up in the atmosphere. However, more asteroids are coming, one flying by closer to the Earth than the Moon.<\/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>Asteroid (illustrative) (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An asteroid struck the Earth over the weekend, just two hours after it was discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designated\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minorplanetcenter.net\/db_search\/show_object?object_id=2022+EB5\" target=\"_blank\">2022 EB5<\/a>, the small rocky object impacted the planet on March 11 north of Iceland, according to numerous astronomers online.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At just three meters wide, 2022 EB5 was around just half the size of an average male giraffe, which grows to be around five-six meters in height. As such, it was unlikely to do any damage if it had impacted the planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/article-701110\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at JP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Jerusalem Post Asteroid impacts Earth just two hours after it was discovered The asteroid, 2022 EB5, was small and burnt up in the atmosphere. However, more asteroids are coming, one flying by closer to the Earth than the Moon. By\u00a0AARON REICH An asteroid struck the Earth over the weekend, just two hours after [&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-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","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=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}