{"id":8804,"date":"2017-11-24T18:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T01:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2017-12-02T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T01:29:21","slug":"have-an-ele-jolly-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/24\/have-an-ele-jolly-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Have an ELE Jolly Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/662284\/asteroid-nasa-3200-Phaethon-earth-christmas-december-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"clear\">Massive 3-mile wide Christmas asteroid to practically GRAZE Earth next month<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">A HUGE asteroid will very nearly graze the planet next month \u2013 just days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/search\/Rachel+O%27Donoghue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel O&#8217;Donoghue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo kalooga_12952\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/1\/photos\/162000\/1150162.jpg\" alt=\"asteroid\" width=\"480\" \/><em><span class=\"caption new\">EXTINCTION: The asteroid is just half the size of the one that wiped out dinosaurs \/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit new\">GETTY<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The space rock \u2013 dubbed \u201c3200 Phaethon\u201d after the Greek God \u2013 will come \u201cquite close\u201d to Earth on December 17.<\/p>\n<p>Russian astronomers have been tracking the asteroid&#8217;s path, which has been described by NASA as a \u201cpotentially hazardous asteroid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It will pass by Earth at a distance of just 2 million miles \u2013 practically brushing the planet in space terms.<\/p>\n<p>And at three miles wide, it is just half the size of the space rock that led to the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/662284\/asteroid-nasa-3200-Phaethon-earth-christmas-december-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Massive 3-mile wide Christmas asteroid to practically GRAZE Earth next month A HUGE asteroid will very nearly graze the planet next month \u2013 just days before Christmas. By Rachel O&#8217;Donoghue EXTINCTION: The asteroid is just half the size of the one that wiped out dinosaurs \/\u00a0GETTY The space rock \u2013 dubbed [&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-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","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=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}