{"id":158039,"date":"2023-02-14T22:24:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/planetary-defense-asteroid-racing-toward-earth-discovered-just-hours-before-impact"},"modified":"2023-02-14T22:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T04:24:50","slug":"planetary-defense-asteroid-racing-toward-earth-discovered-just-hours-before-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/planetary-defense-asteroid-racing-toward-earth-discovered-just-hours-before-impact","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Defense: Asteroid Racing Toward Earth Discovered Just Hours Before Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planetary-defense-asteroid-racing-toward-earth-discovered-just-hours-before-impact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the seventh time, a small asteroid \u2013 a meteoroid as astronomers call it \u2013 was discovered in space as it raced towards Earth for impact. The <a title=\"ESA Operations shares meteoric prediction\" href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/esaoperations\/status\/1624901825785724929 target=_blank rel=noopener>predicted time and location<\/a> of the impact (02:50 \u2013 03:03 UTC<\/p>\n<p>Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. Prior to 1972, this time was called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is also known as \u201cZ time\u201d or \u201cZulu Time.\u201d It is, within about 1 second, mean solar time at 0\u00b0 longitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the seventh time, a small asteroid \u2013 a meteoroid as astronomers call it \u2013 was discovered in space as it raced towards Earth for impact. The predicted time and location of the impact (02:50 \u2013 03:03 UTC Coordinated Universal Time or Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158039","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}