{"id":125519,"date":"2021-07-26T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/asteroid-the-size-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-just-flew-safely"},"modified":"2021-07-26T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T18:22:55","slug":"asteroid-the-size-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-just-flew-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/asteroid-the-size-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-just-flew-safely","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza just flew (safely)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-the-size-of-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-just-flew-safely2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html\">asteroid<\/a> about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/asteroid-flyby-earth-size-of-giza-pyramid.html\" target=\"_blank\"> made a \u201cclose\u201d approach with Earth<\/a> on Sunday (July 25), according to NASA calculations.<\/p>\n<p>There is no worry that the space rock poses any threat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\">Earth<\/a>, but NASA monitors such rocks to both learn more about the early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16080-solar-system-planets.html\">solar system<\/a> \u2014 asteroids are rocky fragments from that time \u2014 and because if their orbits were to change, the asteroid could pose a future risk to Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude00 An asteroid about as long as the Great Pyramid of Giza is tall made a \u201cclose\u201d approach with Earth on Sunday (July 25), according to NASA calculations. There is no worry that the space rock poses any threat to Earth, but NASA monitors such rocks to both learn more about the early solar system [\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-125519","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\/125519","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=125519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}