{"id":111613,"date":"2020-08-19T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/asteroid-makes-closest-fly-by-of-earth-on-record-and-nasa-didnt-see-it-until-after-the-close-shave"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:30:03","slug":"asteroid-makes-closest-fly-by-of-earth-on-record-and-nasa-didnt-see-it-until-after-the-close-shave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/asteroid-makes-closest-fly-by-of-earth-on-record-and-nasa-didnt-see-it-until-after-the-close-shave","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid makes closest fly-by of Earth on record \u2014 and NASA didn\u2019t see it until after the close shave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-makes-closest-fly-by-of-earth-on-record-and-nasa-didnt-see-it-until-after-the-close-shave2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid the size of a car has flown past Earth closer than any seen before without hitting the planet \u2014 and NASA admits: \u201cWe didn\u2019t see it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known as asteroid 2020 QG, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/nasa-5932\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a><\/strong> said the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/space-6770\" target=\"_blank\">space<\/a><\/strong> rock passed 1,830 miles (2,950 km) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>If it had actually been on an impact trajectory, it would likely have become a \u201cfireball\u201d as it broke up in the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, the US space agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid the size of a car has flown past Earth closer than any seen before without hitting the planet \u2014 and NASA admits: \u201cWe didn\u2019t see it coming.\u201d Known as asteroid 2020 QG, NASA said the space rock passed 1,830 miles (2,950 km) above the southern Indian Ocean on Sunday. If it had actually [\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-111613","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\/111613","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=111613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}