{"id":6561,"date":"2015-06-16T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2015-06-16T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T18:44:38","slug":"the-kilometre-long-spacerock-named-after-the-greek-mythological-character-that-flew-too-close-to-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/16\/the-kilometre-long-spacerock-named-after-the-greek-mythological-character-that-flew-too-close-to-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The kilometre-long spacerock named after the Greek mythological character that flew too close to the sun&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/kilometrelong-asteroid-icarus-to-skim-past-the-earth-in-rare-distant-pass-10323554.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Independent<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Asteroid Icarus to skim past the Earth in rare &#8216;distant pass&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/search\/simple.do?destinationSectionUniqueName=search&amp;publicationName=ind&amp;pageLength=5&amp;startDay=1&amp;startMonth=1&amp;startYear=2010&amp;useSectionFilter=true&amp;useHideArticle=true&amp;searchString=byline_text:%28%22Loulla-Mae%20Eleftheriou-Smith%22%29&amp;displaySearchString=Loulla-Mae%20Eleftheriou-Smith\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"authorName\">Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/incoming\/article8872413.ece\/alternates\/w620\/v218-waterplanet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Icarus will not make a closer approach to the Earth until 2090<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asteroid Icarus, the kilometre-long spacerock named after the Greek mythological character that flew too close to the sun, will skim past the Earth on Tuesday night making a rare \u201cdistant pass\u201d of five million miles.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nasa, the asteroid 1566 Icarus will safely pass by the Earth at more than 21 lunar distances, which is 21 times the distance between form the Earth to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The next time the rock is set to approach the Earth at this kind of close distance will not be until 2090, when it will skim past marginally closer at 17 lunar distances.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/kilometrelong-asteroid-icarus-to-skim-past-the-earth-in-rare-distant-pass-10323554.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent Asteroid Icarus to skim past the Earth in rare &#8216;distant pass&#8217; by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith Icarus will not make a closer approach to the Earth until 2090 Asteroid Icarus, the kilometre-long spacerock named after the Greek mythological character that flew too close to the sun, will skim past the Earth on Tuesday night [&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-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","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=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}