{"id":149197,"date":"2022-10-31T04:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-skyscraper-sized-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-zip-through-earths-orbit-on-halloween"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T09:23:28","slug":"a-skyscraper-sized-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-zip-through-earths-orbit-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-skyscraper-sized-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-zip-through-earths-orbit-on-halloween","title":{"rendered":"A skyscraper-sized \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid will zip through Earth\u2019s orbit on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-skyscraper-sized-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-will-zip-through-earths-orbit-on-halloween2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered, \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid almost the size of the world\u2019s tallest skyscraper is set to tumble past Earth just in time for Halloween, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of between 1,083 and 2,428 feet (330 and 740 meters) \u2014 just under the height of Dubai\u2019s 2,716-foot-tall (828 m) Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. It will zoom past our planet at around 52,500 mph (84,500 km\/h), or roughly 68 times the speed of sound, according to NASA (opens in new tab).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered, \u201cpotentially hazardous\u201d asteroid almost the size of the world\u2019s tallest skyscraper is set to tumble past Earth just in time for Halloween, according to NASA. The asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an estimated diameter of between 1,083 and 2,428 feet (330 and 740 meters) \u2014 just under the height of Dubai\u2019s 2,716-foot-tall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149197","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\/149197","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}