{"id":102969,"date":"2020-02-27T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/earth-captures-new-mini-moon"},"modified":"2020-02-28T06:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:45:50","slug":"earth-captures-new-mini-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/earth-captures-new-mini-moon","title":{"rendered":"Earth captures new \u2018mini moon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-captures-new-mini-moon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earth has acquired a second \u201cmini-moon\u201d about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet.<\/p>\n<p>The mass\u2014roughly 1.9\u22123.5 meters (6\u221211 feet) in diameter\u2014was observed by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on the night of February 15.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBIG NEWS. Earth has a new temporarily captured <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/object\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">object<\/a>\/Possible mini-moon called 2020 CD3,\u201d likely to be a C-type asteroid, Wierzchos tweeted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth has acquired a second \u201cmini-moon\u201d about the size of a car, according to astronomers who spotted the object circling our planet. The mass\u2014roughly 1.9\u22123.5 meters (6\u221211 feet) in diameter\u2014was observed by researchers Kacper Wierzchos and Teddy Pruyne at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on the night of February 15. \u201cBIG NEWS. Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103002,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102969\/revisions\/103002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}