{"id":9880,"date":"2019-05-25T22:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2019-06-09T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:32:45","slug":"thats-no-asteroid-its-an-asteroid-with-a-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/25\/thats-no-asteroid-its-an-asteroid-with-a-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s no asteroid, it&#8217;s an asteroid with a moon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-kw4-1999-this-week-a-massive-asteroid-with-its-own-moon-orbiting-it-will-pass-by-earth-nasa-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from CBS News (opens in a new tab)\">from CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A massive asteroid with its own moon trailing behind will pass by Earth this weekend<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY BRIAN PASCUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2019\/05\/22\/79ac63eb-1c81-4437-ba11-3d0d3cdb50db\/thumbnail\/620x413\/7295431ce2ee7a3d8f4ad54a9d5fff47\/kw4.png#\" alt=\"1999 kw4 nasa \"\/><figcaption>NASA rendering of KW4 1999 asteroid with moon following&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An asteroid nearly a mile wide with a moon of its own is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/walnut-asteroid-nearly-a-mile-wide-seen-approaching-with-its-own-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expected to pass by Earth<\/a>&nbsp;this weekend, traveling at 48,000 mph. The space rock, known as asteroid 1999 KW4, was discovered 20 years ago and is so large that it is orbited by a moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday evening, 1999 KW4 will make its closest approach to Earth. It will be visible until May 27. Because it carries a large moon along with it, the asteroid is technically designated as a binary system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A binary system is defined as two celestial objects close enough to orbit each other, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/home\/hqnews\/2012\/dec\/HQ_12-425_Wide_Binary_Stars.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/asteroid-kw4-1999-this-week-a-massive-asteroid-with-its-own-moon-orbiting-it-will-pass-by-earth-nasa-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at CBS (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at CBS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CBS News A massive asteroid with its own moon trailing behind will pass by Earth this weekend BY BRIAN PASCUS An asteroid nearly a mile wide with a moon of its own is&nbsp;expected to pass by Earth&nbsp;this weekend, traveling at 48,000 mph. The space rock, known as asteroid 1999 KW4, was discovered 20 years [&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-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}