{"id":113837,"date":"2020-10-04T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/asteroid-as-big-as-three-buses-heading-our-way"},"modified":"2020-10-04T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:03:30","slug":"asteroid-as-big-as-three-buses-heading-our-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/asteroid-as-big-as-three-buses-heading-our-way","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid as big as three buses heading our way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-as-big-as-three-buses-heading-our-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bad news is that this space rock is between 38 and 86 metres across, <a class=\"\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/news\/1520\/october-2020-the-next-full-moon-is-the-harvest-moon\/\">according to NASA<\/a> \u2014 that\u2019s about the size of three double-decker buses.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that it <em>should<\/em> swing past our home planet (Earth) with no chance of a direct hit.<\/p>\n<p>It will be travelling at a mind-blowing 10.88 kilometers per second which is around 40,000 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news is that this space rock is between 38 and 86 metres across, according to NASA \u2014 that\u2019s about the size of three double-decker buses. The good news is that it should swing past our home planet (Earth) with no chance of a direct hit. It will be travelling at a mind-blowing 10.88 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113837","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=113837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}