{"id":8428,"date":"2017-06-22T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:43:36","slug":"theyre-coming-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/06\/22\/theyre-coming-3\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re coming&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/3858524\/earth-set-for-an-asteroid-encounter-this-week-as-nasa-spots-230m-space-rock-and-labels-it-potentially-hazardous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Sun<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Earth set for an \u2018asteroid encounter\u2019 THIS WEEK and 750ft space rock could be \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>Nasa&#8217;s eagle-eyed asteroid hunting team have spotted\u00a01803 potentially hazardous asteroids<\/p>\n<p>By Margi Murphy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/kh-asteroid.jpg?strip=all&amp;w=667&amp;quality=100\" alt=\"This asteroid rotation map shows how close 441987 (2010 NY65) will swoop by the Earth\" width=\"480\" \/><em>This asteroid rotation map shows how close 441987 (2010 NY65) will swoop by the Earth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A ROCK hurtling through space will make a close encounter with Earth on Saturday, according to Nasa.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t cancel the BBQ just yet \u2013 it\u2019s unlikely to smash into our planet.<\/p>\n<p>If it did, it could potentially wipe out life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>So Nasa is keeping an eye on it just in case.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid \u2013 named 441987 (2010 NY65) \u2013 is marked as a concern because it\u2019s 230 metres in diameter and travelling just 7.9 lunar distances (that\u2019s about three million km) from us.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/3858524\/earth-set-for-an-asteroid-encounter-this-week-as-nasa-spots-230m-space-rock-and-labels-it-potentially-hazardous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Sun<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Sun Earth set for an \u2018asteroid encounter\u2019 THIS WEEK and 750ft space rock could be \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 Nasa&#8217;s eagle-eyed asteroid hunting team have spotted\u00a01803 potentially hazardous asteroids By Margi Murphy This asteroid rotation map shows how close 441987 (2010 NY65) will swoop by the Earth A ROCK hurtling through space will make a [&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-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","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=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}