{"id":129162,"date":"2021-10-18T20:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/asteroid-the-size-of-empire-state-building-to-make-close-encounter-with-earth"},"modified":"2021-10-18T20:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T03:22:40","slug":"asteroid-the-size-of-empire-state-building-to-make-close-encounter-with-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/asteroid-the-size-of-empire-state-building-to-make-close-encounter-with-earth","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid the size of Empire State Building to make \u2018close\u2019 encounter with Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-the-size-of-empire-state-building-to-make-close-encounter-with-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massive asteroids \u2014 including one the size of the Empire State Building \u2014 are predicted to make \u201cclose\u201d encounters with Earth in the coming weeks, with one set to whiz by as early as Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The space rock \u201c2004 UE,\u201d which at 1,246 feet is only a few feet shorter than the Midtown skyscraper, will be 2.6 million miles away on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Of the asteroids headed our way, \u201c1996 VB3\u201d \u2014 which has a diameter of about 750 feet \u2014 is expected to come closest to Earth, at a distance of only 2.1 million miles, <a href=\"https:\/\/cneos.jpl.nasa.gov\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to NASA\u2019s Center for Near-Earth Objects<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive asteroids \u2014 including one the size of the Empire State Building \u2014 are predicted to make \u201cclose\u201d encounters with Earth in the coming weeks, with one set to whiz by as early as Wednesday night. The space rock \u201c2004 UE,\u201d which at 1,246 feet is only a few feet shorter than the Midtown skyscraper, [\u2026]<\/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-129162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129162","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=129162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}