{"id":132223,"date":"2021-12-11T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/asteroid-nereus-cruised-past-earth-today-in-39-years-it-could-be-mined-for-5-billion-in-precious-metals"},"modified":"2021-12-11T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T21:42:55","slug":"asteroid-nereus-cruised-past-earth-today-in-39-years-it-could-be-mined-for-5-billion-in-precious-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/asteroid-nereus-cruised-past-earth-today-in-39-years-it-could-be-mined-for-5-billion-in-precious-metals","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Nereus Cruised Past Earth Today. In 39 Years It Could Be Mined For $5 Billion In Precious Metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/asteroid-nereus-cruised-past-earth-today-in-39-years-it-could-be-mined-for-5-billion-in-precious-metals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The possibility of space mining in future was thrown into sharp relief this weekend as a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) called 4,660 Nereus passed our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Worth an estimated $5 billion in precious metals and measuring 330 meters across, Nereus at no point came anywhere near being dangerous, getting no closer than 2.4 million miles\/3.9 million kilometers at 13:51 UTC on Saturday, December 11, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s about 10 times the distance between the Earth and the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>So why so much attention on Nereus?<\/p>\n<p>There seemed to be a lot of misunderstanding about how dangerous\u2014or otherwise\u2014Nereus could be to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because Nereus belongs to the subgroup of NEAs known as Apollo asteroids, which means that it will cross the path of Earth\u2019s orbit at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Full Story:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/asteroid-nereus-cruised-past-earth-today-in-39-years-it-could-be-mined-for-5-billion-in-precious-metals\">Continue reading \u201cAsteroid Nereus Cruised Past Earth Today. In 39 Years It Could Be Mined For Billion In Precious Metals\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of space mining in future was thrown into sharp relief this weekend as a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) called 4,660 Nereus passed our planet. Worth an estimated $5 billion in precious metals and measuring 330 meters across, Nereus at no point came anywhere near being dangerous, getting no closer than 2.4 million miles\/3.9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132223","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}