{"id":4088,"date":"2013-03-09T16:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T23:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2013-03-09T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T23:54:43","slug":"from-out-of-nowhere-it-flies-by-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/09\/from-out-of-nowhere-it-flies-by-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"From Out of Nowhere It Flies By Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/03\/watch-live-asteroid-2013et\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from WIRED<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Watch Live: City-Block-Size Asteroid Comes Out of Nowhere and Flies By Earth<\/h1>\n<p><em>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/author\/adammann930\/\" target=\"_blank\">ADAM MANN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUFmBffCtN4\" height=\"270\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid roughly 64 to 140 meters wide \u2014 about the size of a city block \u2014 will be zipping past the Earth today, and you can watch a live show (above) of the event from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/events.slooh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slooh Space Camera<\/a>\u00a0consortium starting at 12:45 p.m. Pacific\/3:45 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, officially called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2013%20ET&amp;orb=1\" target=\"_blank\">2013 ET<\/a>, was discovered only on Mar. 3. It will be coming within less than\u00a01 million km of our planet, about 2.5 times the distance between the moon and the Earth. This distance means the object poses no danger but is a very close shave astronomically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid\u2019s close approach barely a week after its discovery follows a busy month for things falling from the sky. On Feb. 15, the largest meteor to hit the Earth in a century\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/02\/asteroid-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\">exploded over Russia<\/a>\u00a0just as another asteroid made a record-setting close approach. With\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/02\/asteroid-watching-mitigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">the world\u2019s attention fixing more and more<\/a>\u00a0on space rocks, this flyby highlights how big and potentially deadly objects can appear without<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/03\/watch-live-asteroid-2013et\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WIRED.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from WIRED Watch Live: City-Block-Size Asteroid Comes Out of Nowhere and Flies By Earth BY\u00a0ADAM MANN An asteroid roughly 64 to 140 meters wide \u2014 about the size of a city block \u2014 will be zipping past the Earth today, and you can watch a live show (above) of the event from the\u00a0Slooh Space Camera\u00a0consortium [&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-4088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}