{"id":8568,"date":"2017-08-10T13:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T20:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2017-08-11T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:22:10","slug":"asteroid-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/10\/asteroid-shave\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Shave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/asteroid-shave-past-earth-inside-moon-orbit-esa-155009565.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from AFP via Yahoo! News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Asteroid to shave past Earth inside Moon orbit: ESA<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/sy\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/W.BnTkNK2SmyAN_581eqJg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9ODAwO2lsPXBsYW5l\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/afp.com\/Part-WAS-APW2002120685084-1-0-1.jpg\" alt=\"An asteroid the size of a house will shave past Earth at a distance of some 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) in October, inside the Moon&amp;#39;s orbit, astronomers said\" width=\"480\" \/><em>An asteroid the size of a house will shave past Earth at a distance of some 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) in October, inside the Moon&#8217;s orbit, astronomers said (AFP Photo\/NASA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paris (AFP) &#8211; An asteroid the size of a house will shave past Earth at a distance of some 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) in October, inside the Moon&#8217;s orbit, astronomers said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The space rock will zoom by at an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon &#8212; far enough to just miss our geostationary satellites orbiting at about 36,000 kilometres, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will not hit the Earth,&#8221; said Detlef Koschny of ESA&#8217;s &#8220;Near Earth Objects&#8221; research team. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most important thing to say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/asteroid-shave-past-earth-inside-moon-orbit-esa-155009565.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Yahoo! News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AFP via Yahoo! News Asteroid to shave past Earth inside Moon orbit: ESA An asteroid the size of a house will shave past Earth at a distance of some 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) in October, inside the Moon&#8217;s orbit, astronomers said (AFP Photo\/NASA) Paris (AFP) &#8211; An asteroid the size of a house will [&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-8568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568","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=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}