{"id":8197,"date":"2017-02-08T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T20:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2017-02-11T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:50:28","slug":"2017-bs32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/08\/2017-bs32\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 BS32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2765482\/asteroid-2017-bs32-will-zoom-past-earth-tonight-in-fourth-close-shave-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>NOT SO FAR AWAY\u00a0&#8211; Asteroid 2017 BS32 will zoom past Earth TONIGHT in fourth close shave of the year<\/h1>\n<p><em>Scientists spotted space rock from &#8216;potentially hazardous&#8217; Aten asteroid group on Monday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BY MARGI MURPHY<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2765482\/asteroid-2017-bs32-will-zoom-past-earth-tonight-in-fourth-close-shave-of-the-year\/#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nintchdbpict000042941654.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=960\" alt=\"Asteroids generally have an irregular appearance due to their small size\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><em>PA.PRESS ASSOCIATION<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SCIENTISTS have just spotted\u00a0an asteroid which will brush past Earth this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid\u00a02017 BS32 will\u00a0fly past at around\u00a0161,280 km from our planet, according to stargazers.<\/p>\n<p>2017 BS32 \u00a0is expected to\u00a0hurtle past at around 8.30pm Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The space rock \u2013 estimated to be\u00a0around 82ft in size \u2013 belongs to the\u00a0Aten group of asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the thousands of Atens have been classed as &#8220;potentially hazardous&#8221; because of their proximity to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It was only spotted on Monday by astronomers and is\u00a0the fourth\u00a0Near-Earth Asteroid to pass this year, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2017\/01\/31\/asteroid-2017-bs32-flyby-february-2-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">eagle-eyed asteroid watchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/2765482\/asteroid-2017-bs32-will-zoom-past-earth-tonight-in-fourth-close-shave-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun NOT SO FAR AWAY\u00a0&#8211; Asteroid 2017 BS32 will zoom past Earth TONIGHT in fourth close shave of the year Scientists spotted space rock from &#8216;potentially hazardous&#8217; Aten asteroid group on Monday BY MARGI MURPHY PA.PRESS ASSOCIATION SCIENTISTS have just spotted\u00a0an asteroid which will brush past Earth this evening. Asteroid\u00a02017 BS32 will\u00a0fly past [&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-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197","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=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}