{"id":128351,"date":"2021-09-30T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-huge-asteroid-almost-hit-earth-but-nasa-didnt-detect-it-until-a-day-later"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:24:16","slug":"a-huge-asteroid-almost-hit-earth-but-nasa-didnt-detect-it-until-a-day-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-huge-asteroid-almost-hit-earth-but-nasa-didnt-detect-it-until-a-day-later","title":{"rendered":"A huge asteroid almost hit earth but NASA didn\u2019t detect it until a day later"},"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\/4Wrc4fHSCpw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A giant asteroid almost hit earth on September 16 but because it came from the direction of the sun, scientists missed it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you heard a whooshing noise recently, you weren\u2019t imagining it\u2014there was indeed a gigantic asteroid that almost hit earth this month. And NASA didn\u2019t see it coming.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, named 2021 SG, has a diameter of around 42 to 94 m, with a diameter or around 68 m, which makes it around half the size of the great pyramids.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid tracker EarthSky has it listed for September 16 but NASA only detected it a day later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A giant asteroid almost hit earth on September 16 but because it came from the direction of the sun, scientists missed it. If you heard a whooshing noise recently, you weren\u2019t imagining it\u2014there was indeed a gigantic asteroid that almost hit earth this month. And NASA didn\u2019t see it coming. The asteroid, named 2021 SG, [\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-128351","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\/128351","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=128351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}