{"id":117911,"date":"2021-01-01T02:21:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T10:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/rocky-start-2021-will-begin-with-unwelcome-220-meter-wide-asteroid-visitor-nasa-warns"},"modified":"2021-01-01T02:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T10:21:56","slug":"rocky-start-2021-will-begin-with-unwelcome-220-meter-wide-asteroid-visitor-nasa-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/rocky-start-2021-will-begin-with-unwelcome-220-meter-wide-asteroid-visitor-nasa-warns","title":{"rendered":"Rocky start: 2021 will begin with unwelcome, 220-meter wide asteroid visitor, NASA warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AiUJnNlkwWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re getting a lot of these aren\u2019t we? \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Before that, this year\u2019s final asteroid, 2020 YB4, measuring just 36 meters in diameter or roughly half the wingspan of a 747, passed by the Earth shortly after 6am UTC at a distance of 6.1 million kilometers. That means, in terms of the threat posed by space rocks at least, the planet made it out of 2020 somewhat intact.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the first days of January, three additional, small Near Earth Objects (NEOs) will grace the Earth with their presence, for a brief time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re getting a lot of these aren\u2019t we? \ud83d\ude03 Before that, this year\u2019s final asteroid, 2020 YB4, measuring just 36 meters in diameter or roughly half the wingspan of a 747, passed by the Earth shortly after 6am UTC at a distance of 6.1 million kilometers. That means, in terms of the threat posed by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117911","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}