{"id":130407,"date":"2021-11-11T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/earth-is-being-followed-by-a-chunk-of-the-moon"},"modified":"2021-11-11T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T18:14:35","slug":"earth-is-being-followed-by-a-chunk-of-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/earth-is-being-followed-by-a-chunk-of-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Earth is being followed by a chunk of the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-is-being-followed-by-a-chunk-of-the-moon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A near-Earth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/asteroid\">asteroid<\/a> known as Kamo\u2018oalewa might be made of a stray chunk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/moon\">the Moon<\/a>, scientists have said.<\/p>\n<p>Kamo\u2018oalewa is one of a mysterious and little-understood set of objects called quasi-satellites. It is an asteroid that orbits around the Sun but remains close to the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>As with all objects of that type, Kamo\u2018oalewa is difficult to observe. Though it is relatively close to the Earth \u2013 it comes as close as 9 million mile away \u2013 it is also very faint, about 4 million times darker than the faintest star humans can see in the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o. A near-Earth asteroid known as Kamo\u2018oalewa might be made of a stray chunk of the Moon, scientists have said. Kamo\u2018oalewa is one of a mysterious and little-understood set of objects called quasi-satellites. It is an asteroid that orbits around the Sun but remains close to the Earth. As with all objects of that type, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130407","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=130407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}