{"id":131596,"date":"2021-12-01T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-says-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-break-into-earths-orbit-next-week"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:22:37","slug":"nasa-says-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-break-into-earths-orbit-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/nasa-says-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-break-into-earths-orbit-next-week","title":{"rendered":"NASA says huge, \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid will break into Earth\u2019s orbit next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-says-huge-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-break-into-earths-orbit-next-week3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is heading towards Earth this month and it\u2019s considered an especially unique piece of rock by scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid 4,660 Nereus is classified as a \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d piece of rock because of its proximity to Earth. On Dec. 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/tools\/sbdb_lookup.html#\/?sstr=4660\">NASA expects<\/a> it to be at its closest point to Earth over a 20-year period. The asteroid was discovered back in 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is heading towards Earth this month and it\u2019s considered an especially unique piece of rock by scientists. The asteroid 4,660 Nereus is classified as a \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d piece of rock because of its proximity to Earth. On Dec. 11, NASA expects it to be at its closest [\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-131596","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\/131596","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=131596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}