{"id":191629,"date":"2024-06-22T22:26:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-world-will-soon-witness-one-of-the-rarest-space-events-of-our-lives"},"modified":"2024-06-22T22:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T03:26:33","slug":"the-world-will-soon-witness-one-of-the-rarest-space-events-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/the-world-will-soon-witness-one-of-the-rarest-space-events-of-our-lives","title":{"rendered":"The World Will Soon Witness \u201cOne Of The Rarest Space Events Of Our Lives\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-world-will-soon-witness-one-of-the-rarest-space-events-of-our-lives2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u24d8 IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites.<\/p>\n<p>The event is so rare because of its large size \u2013 375 meters (1230 feet) average diameter \u2013 as well as its proximity to the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 2029 flyby is an incredibly rare event,\u201d ESA explained in an X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/esaoperations\/status\/1803316488457109814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>. \u201cBy comparing impact craters across the Solar System with the sizes and orbits of all known asteroids, scientists believe that an asteroid as large as Apophis only comes this close to Earth once every 5,000 to 10,000 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u24d8 IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites. The event is so rare because of its large size \u2013 375 meters (1230 feet) average diameter \u2013 as well as its proximity to the Earth. \u201cThe 2029 flyby is an incredibly rare event,\u201d ESA explained in an X post. \u201cBy comparing impact craters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191629","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\/191629","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}