{"id":125364,"date":"2021-07-23T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/asteroid-3-times-the-size-of-taj-mahal-to-fly-past-earth-on-saturday"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:24:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:24:29","slug":"asteroid-3-times-the-size-of-taj-mahal-to-fly-past-earth-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/asteroid-3-times-the-size-of-taj-mahal-to-fly-past-earth-on-saturday","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid 3 times the size of Taj Mahal to fly past Earth on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-3-times-the-size-of-taj-mahal-to-fly-past-earth-on-saturday2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2014 An asteroid about the size of a stadium \u2014 or three times the size of the Taj Mahal \u2014 is set to speed past Earth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, called \u201c2008Go20,\u201d is hurtling towards Earth at 18000 mph, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008%20GO20%20;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=1#orb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a>. Nevertheless, the agency says there\u2019s no reason to worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NEXSTAR) \u2014 An asteroid about the size of a stadium \u2014 or three times the size of the Taj Mahal \u2014 is set to speed past Earth on Saturday. The asteroid, called \u201c2008Go20,\u201d is hurtling towards Earth at 18000 mph, according to NASA. Nevertheless, the agency says there\u2019s no reason to worry.<\/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-125364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125364","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=125364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}