{"id":110580,"date":"2020-07-28T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-car-just-zipped"},"modified":"2020-08-02T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T03:56:03","slug":"an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-car-just-zipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-car-just-zipped","title":{"rendered":"An asteroid the size of a car just zipped by Earth in close flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-asteroid-the-size-of-a-car-just-zipped3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A car-sized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a> discovered over the weekend made a close flyby of Earth today (July 28), passing our planet at a range that rivals the orbits of some high-flying satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid 2020 OY4, which was first detected on Sunday (July 26), made its closest approach today at 1:31 a.m. EDT (0531 GMT) when it zipped by Earth at a speed of about 27,700 mph (44,600 km\/h), <a href=\"http:\/\/neo.ssa.esa.int\/c\/document_library\/get_file?uuid=3bbc9d97-f8b9-4224-bddd-db0f220230a7&amp;groupId=10157\" target=\"_blank\">according to the European Space Agency<\/a>. The asteroid is just under 10 feet (3 meters) wide and posed no impact risk to Earth, but did approach the flight paths of geosynchronous satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car-sized asteroid discovered over the weekend made a close flyby of Earth today (July 28), passing our planet at a range that rivals the orbits of some high-flying satellites. The asteroid 2020 OY4, which was first detected on Sunday (July 26), made its closest approach today at 1:31 a.m. EDT (0531 GMT) when it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110580","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110580\/revisions\/110776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}