{"id":8721,"date":"2017-10-12T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:25:04","slug":"its-coming-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/12\/its-coming-3\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/asteroid-2012-tc4-earth-2079-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from C|NET<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Asteroid that just buzzed Earth may not miss on return visit<\/h1>\n<p>Asteroid 2012 TC4 doesn&#8217;t have a very memorable name, but it might leave quite an impression years from now.<\/p>\n<p>BY\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/profiles\/ericcmack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\" aria-label=\"Eric Mack author page\">ERIC MACK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnet2.cbsistatic.com\/img\/Nmvdaa_GyxJhklsoUb2dhSmk_zw=\/fit-in\/570x0\/2017\/10\/12\/6ba3608b-4b21-4813-9411-20dd6c0bb612\/asteroid-earth-animation.gif\" alt=\"asteroid-earth-animation\" width=\"480\" \/><em>A rendering of Asteroid 2012 TC4. \/\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The house-size asteroid that just passed by Earth, almost as close as many satellites in orbit, will be back &#8212; and a future visit might lead to it taking up permanent residency here.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night\/Wednesday morning, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/watch-asteroid-2012-tc4-buzz-earth-october-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroid 2012 TC4 safely passed<\/a><\/span> by our planet at an altitude of 27,300 miles (44,000 kilometers), just a few thousand miles above the level of satellites in geosychronous orbit. That&#8217;s nearly twice as close as when it passed us almost exactly five years ago, about a week after it was first discovered in October 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent models of the space rock&#8217;s future path, which can be altered by Earth&#8217;s gravity each time it makes a close pass, have ruled out the possibility that it will impact Earth when it makes another close call in 2050.<\/p>\n<p>But the same can&#8217;t be said for its visit in 2079.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/asteroid-2012-tc4-earth-2079-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at C|NET<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from C|NET Asteroid that just buzzed Earth may not miss on return visit Asteroid 2012 TC4 doesn&#8217;t have a very memorable name, but it might leave quite an impression years from now. BY\u00a0ERIC MACK A rendering of Asteroid 2012 TC4. \/\u00a0NASA\/JPL-Caltech The house-size asteroid that just passed by Earth, almost as close as many satellites [&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-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}