{"id":75377,"date":"2018-01-17T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-is-headed-towards-earth"},"modified":"2018-01-17T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:22:47","slug":"potentially-hazardous-asteroid-is-headed-towards-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-is-headed-towards-earth","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Potentially hazardous\u2019 asteroid is headed towards Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potentially-hazardous-asteroid-is-headed-towards-earth.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The asteroid is around 0.7 miles (1.1km) wide \u2014 making it longer than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 0.5 miles high (0.8km).<\/p>\n<p>It is set to pass by our planet on the 4th February at a distance of around 2,615,128 miles (4,208,641km) away \u2014 which is relatively close in space terms.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, the distance between the Earth and the moon is 238,855 miles (384,400 km).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5279587\/A-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-flying-past-Earth.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5279587\/A-pot...Earth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid is around 0.7 miles (1.1km) wide \u2014 making it longer than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which stands at 0.5 miles high (0.8km). It is set to pass by our planet on the 4th February at a distance of around 2,615,128 miles (4,208,641km) away \u2014 which is relatively close in space terms. For [\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-75377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377","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=75377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}