{"id":113318,"date":"2020-09-22T22:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/earth-is-about-to-capture-a-new-mini-moon-but-it-might-not-be-a-moon-at-all"},"modified":"2020-09-22T22:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:25:25","slug":"earth-is-about-to-capture-a-new-mini-moon-but-it-might-not-be-a-moon-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/earth-is-about-to-capture-a-new-mini-moon-but-it-might-not-be-a-moon-at-all","title":{"rendered":"Earth is about to capture a new \u2018mini moon\u2019 (but it might not be a moon at all)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-is-about-to-capture-a-new-mini-moon-but-it-might-not-be-a-moon-at-all2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/mini-moon-may-orbiting-earth-123400457.html\" class=\"\">A new mini-moon<\/a> might be about to join Earth\u2019s orbit briefly, before being hurled back into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Minimoons\u2019 are only a few feet across, and each tends to do a stint of around a few months in orbit \u2013 before resuming their previous lives as asteroids.<\/p>\n<p>But this particular mini-moon <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/earth-little-moon-treat-160700916.html\" class=\"\">may be a little different<\/a> \u2013 as experts have suggested it\u2019s not a moon at all, but man-made space junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. A new mini-moon might be about to join Earth\u2019s orbit briefly, before being hurled back into space. \u2018Minimoons\u2019 are only a few feet across, and each tends to do a stint of around a few months in orbit \u2013 before resuming their previous lives as asteroids. But this particular mini-moon may be a little [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113318","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=113318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}