{"id":8850,"date":"2017-12-12T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2017-12-10T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:24:01","slug":"we-arent-going-to-see-them-coming-at-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/12\/we-arent-going-to-see-them-coming-at-first\/","title":{"rendered":"We Aren&#8217;t Going To See Them Coming At First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/665582\/nasa-asteroid-2017-VL2-space-destroy-earth-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Asteroid that could\u2019ve obliterated NYC skimmed past Earth \u2013 and NASA didn\u2019t notice<\/h1>\n<p>A MASSIVE asteroid that could have destroyed New York City skimmed past Earth \u2013 and NASA had no clue.<\/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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/2540076170001\/B1UbbrV5l_default\/index.html?videoId=5672243237001\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The large space rock \u2013 dubbed 2017 VL2 \u2013 passed the planet on November 9 at an astonishing distance of just 73,000 miles, which is considered tiny in space terms.<\/p>\n<p>Space boffins think that if the rock measuring between 16 and 32 metres had hit, it could\u2019ve wiped a major city such as New York off the map.<\/p>\n<p>The rock belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and was first seen at ATLAS-MLO observatory in Hawaii a day later.<\/p>\n<p>It was travelling at a speed of 8.73km\/s and would have caused catastrophic damage if it had made impact.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/665582\/nasa-asteroid-2017-VL2-space-destroy-earth-new-york-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Asteroid that could\u2019ve obliterated NYC skimmed past Earth \u2013 and NASA didn\u2019t notice A MASSIVE asteroid that could have destroyed New York City skimmed past Earth \u2013 and NASA had no clue. By Rachel O&#8217;Donoghue The large space rock \u2013 dubbed 2017 VL2 \u2013 passed the planet on November 9 at [&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-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","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=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}