{"id":8743,"date":"2017-10-20T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8743"},"modified":"2017-11-21T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T18:30:17","slug":"asteroid-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/20\/asteroid-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/653850\/asteroid-2017-TD6-heading-earth-today-near-miss-space-rock-nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"clear\">Bus-sized Asteroid heading for Earth TODAY after string of\u00a0near-miss\u00a0encounters<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">AN ASTEROID will hurtle towards Earth today\u00a0\u2013 just one week after another dangerously close encounter.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/search\/Charlotte+Ikonen\">Charlotte Ikonen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo kalooga_12952\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/1\/photos\/930000\/Asteroid-1112930.jpg\" alt=\"Asteroid\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"credit new\">GETTY \/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caption new\">IMPACT: If the asteroid hit the Earth it would have a devastating impact<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The newly-discovered space rock \u2013 named Asteroid 2017 TD6 \u2013 is expected to zoom past our planet at around at around 7.53pm.<\/p>\n<p>It will be travelling at a distance of 191,000km away from civilisation.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA the chunk of rock is a whopping 22m wide.<\/p>\n<p>Last week another asteroid made a close shave with Earth, as it soared past at a distance of just 27,000 miles above the surface.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/653850\/asteroid-2017-TD6-heading-earth-today-near-miss-space-rock-nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Bus-sized Asteroid heading for Earth TODAY after string of\u00a0near-miss\u00a0encounters AN ASTEROID will hurtle towards Earth today\u00a0\u2013 just one week after another dangerously close encounter. By Charlotte Ikonen GETTY \/\u00a0IMPACT: If the asteroid hit the Earth it would have a devastating impact The newly-discovered space rock \u2013 named Asteroid 2017 TD6 \u2013 [&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-8743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","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=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}