{"id":8611,"date":"2017-08-30T12:08:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:11:04","slug":"the-biggest-in-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/30\/the-biggest-in-a-century\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest In A Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-08-largest-asteroid-century-whiz-sept.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from PHYS.ORG<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1<\/h1>\n<p><a title=\"The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers), NASA said\" href=\"https:\/\/3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net\/newman\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2017\/thelargestas.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net\/newman\/csz\/news\/800\/2017\/thelargestas.jpg\" alt=\"The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><em>The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers), NASA said<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers), NASA said.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid was discovered in 1981, and is named Florence after the famed 19th century founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Florence is the largest asteroid to pass this close to our planet since the first near-Earth asteroid was discovered over a century ago,&#8221; said a US space agency statement.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the biggest asteroids in the Earth&#8217;s vicinity, and measures about 2.7 miles (4.4 kilometers) wide\u2014or about the size of 30 Egyptian pyramids stuck together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While many known asteroids have passed by closer to Earth than Florence will on September 1, all of those were estimated to be smaller,&#8221; said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA&#8217;s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-08-largest-asteroid-century-whiz-sept.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at PHYS.ORG<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PHYS.ORG Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz safely past Earth on September 1 at a safe but unusually close distance of about 4.4 million miles (7 million kilometers), NASA said The largest asteroid in more than a century will whiz [&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-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","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=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}