{"id":111777,"date":"2020-08-23T00:06:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-an-asteroid-will-come-close-to-earth-right-before-election-day"},"modified":"2020-08-23T06:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T13:47:50","slug":"nasa-an-asteroid-will-come-close-to-earth-right-before-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-an-asteroid-will-come-close-to-earth-right-before-election-day","title":{"rendered":"NASA: An Asteroid Will Come Close To Earth Right Before Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-an-asteroid-will-come-close-to-earth-right-before-election-day3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us.<\/p>\n<p>On the day before the presidential vote, no less.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As if 2020 hadn\u2019t already thrown enough at us, NASA says an asteroid will come close to Earth on November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a pandemic, civil unrest and a divisive US election season, we now have an asteroid zooming toward us. On the day before the presidential vote, no less. Yep. The celestial object known as 2018VP1 is projected to come close to Earth on November 2, according to the Center for Near Earth Objects Studies at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111777","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111801,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111777\/revisions\/111801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}