{"id":133595,"date":"2022-01-05T05:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-giant-asteroid-bigger-than-the-empire-state-building-is-about-to-zip-past-earth"},"modified":"2022-01-05T05:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:23:39","slug":"a-giant-asteroid-bigger-than-the-empire-state-building-is-about-to-zip-past-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/a-giant-asteroid-bigger-than-the-empire-state-building-is-about-to-zip-past-earth","title":{"rendered":"A Giant Asteroid Bigger Than The Empire State Building Is About to Zip Past Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-giant-asteroid-bigger-than-the-empire-state-building-is-about-to-zip-past-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large, rocky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"asteroid\">asteroid<\/a> is going to fly by Earth next week.<\/p>\n<p>At 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) long, it\u2019s roughly two and a half times the height of the Empire State Building, and it\u2019s been classed a \u201cPotentially Hazardous Asteroid\u201d due to its size and its regular close visits to our planet.<\/p>\n<p>But don\u2019t worry, this month\u2019s visit is going to have a very safe clearance, with the asteroid zipping by at a distance of 1.93 million kilometers (~1.2 million miles) away from Earth \u2013 that\u2019s roughly 5.15 times more distant than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"the Moon\">the Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large, rocky asteroid is going to fly by Earth next week. At 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) long, it\u2019s roughly two and a half times the height of the Empire State Building, and it\u2019s been classed a \u201cPotentially Hazardous Asteroid\u201d due to its size and its regular close visits to our planet. But don\u2019t worry, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133595","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\/133595","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}