{"id":196745,"date":"2024-09-28T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/earth-will-have-a-temporary-mini-moon-for-two-months"},"modified":"2024-09-28T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T20:24:16","slug":"earth-will-have-a-temporary-mini-moon-for-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/earth-will-have-a-temporary-mini-moon-for-two-months","title":{"rendered":"Earth will have a temporary \u2018mini moon\u2019 for two months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earth-will-have-a-temporary-mini-moon-for-two-months3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Earth\u2019s moon will soon have some company \u2014 a \u201cmini moon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet\u2019s gravity and orbit the globe \u2014 but only for about two months.<\/p>\n<p>The space rock \u2014 2024 PT5 \u2014 was first spotted in August by astronomers at Complutense University of Madrid using a powerful telescope located in Sutherland, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Earth\u2019s moon will soon have some company \u2014 a \u201cmini moon.\u201d The mini moon is actually an asteroid about the size of a school bus at 33 feet (10 meters). When it whizzes by Earth on Sunday, it will be temporarily trapped by our planet\u2019s gravity and orbit the globe \u2014 but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196745","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=196745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}