{"id":72260,"date":"2017-08-30T15:42:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-three-mile-wide-asteroid-is-set-to-graze-past-earth-this-friday"},"modified":"2017-08-31T03:07:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:07:19","slug":"a-three-mile-wide-asteroid-is-set-to-graze-past-earth-this-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/a-three-mile-wide-asteroid-is-set-to-graze-past-earth-this-friday","title":{"rendered":"A THREE MILE wide asteroid is set to graze past Earth this Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-three-mile-wide-asteroid-is-set-to-graze-past-earth-this-friday.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>A massive asteroid estimated to be 2.7 miles wide is set to make a \u2018relatively close encounter\u2019 with Earth on 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u2018Florence,\u2019 the huge space rock will pass just 4.4 million miles from our planet on Friday \u2013 or, about 18 times the distance between Earth and the moon.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\">NASA<\/a>, this is the closest an asteroid of this size has come since they first began tracking near-Earth objects, giving scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study it up close through ground-based radar observations.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4835784\/A-THREE-MILE-wide-asteroid-set-pass-Earth-Friday.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4835784\/A-THR...riday.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive asteroid estimated to be 2.7 miles wide is set to make a \u2018relatively close encounter\u2019 with Earth on 1 September. Dubbed \u2018Florence,\u2019 the huge space rock will pass just 4.4 million miles from our planet on Friday \u2013 or, about 18 times the distance between Earth and the moon. According to NASA, this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72266,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions\/72266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}