{"id":120574,"date":"2021-03-15T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nasas-planetary-defense-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-predicted-to-safely-pass-by-earth-on-march-21"},"modified":"2021-03-15T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T16:22:25","slug":"nasas-planetary-defense-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-predicted-to-safely-pass-by-earth-on-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nasas-planetary-defense-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-predicted-to-safely-pass-by-earth-on-march-21","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Planetary Defense: \u201cPotentially Hazardous Asteroid\u201d Predicted to Safely Pass by Earth on March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-planetary-defense-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-predicted-to-safely-pass-by-earth-on-march-212.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interplanetary interloper won\u2019t come closer than 1.25 million miles to Earth, but it will present a valuable scientific opportunity for astronomers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a good look at a rocky relic that formed at the dawn of our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Called 2001 FO32, the near-Earth asteroid will make its closest approach at a distance of about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) \u2013 or 5\u00a01\/4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. There is no threat of a collision with our planet now or for centuries to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interplanetary interloper won\u2019t come closer than 1.25 million miles to Earth, but it will present a valuable scientific opportunity for astronomers. The largest asteroid predicted to pass by our planet in 2021 will be at its closest on March 21, providing astronomers a rare opportunity to get a good look at a rocky relic [\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-120574","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\/120574","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=120574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}