{"id":104821,"date":"2020-04-05T18:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T01:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/huge-asteroid-1998-or2-will-zip-harmlessly"},"modified":"2020-04-05T18:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T01:23:28","slug":"huge-asteroid-1998-or2-will-zip-harmlessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/huge-asteroid-1998-or2-will-zip-harmlessly","title":{"rendered":"Huge asteroid 1998 OR2 will zip harmlessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/huge-asteroid-1998-or2-will-zip-harmlessly.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The huge \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid 1998 OR2 is just a few weeks away from its close encounter with Earth, and you can watch the giant space rock\u2019s approach online or with a small telescope.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/asteroid-1998-or2-earth-flyby-april-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid 1998 OR2<\/a> is large enough to wreak havoc on Earth if it were to strike our planet, it won\u2019t come anywhere near a collision when it flies by on April 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The huge \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid 1998 OR2 is just a few weeks away from its close encounter with Earth, and you can watch the giant space rock\u2019s approach online or with a small telescope. While asteroid 1998 OR2 is large enough to wreak havoc on Earth if it were to strike our planet, it won\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104821","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}