{"id":81985,"date":"2018-08-22T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/massive-asteroid-bigger-than-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-will-make-a-close-approach-to-earth-next-week"},"modified":"2018-08-25T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T00:35:43","slug":"massive-asteroid-bigger-than-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-will-make-a-close-approach-to-earth-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/massive-asteroid-bigger-than-the-great-pyramid-of-giza-will-make-a-close-approach-to-earth-next-week","title":{"rendered":"Massive asteroid bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza will make a close approach to Earth NEXT WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/video.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2017\/06\/06\/2056697855940210777\/1024x576_MP4_2056697855940210777.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A massive asteroid estimated to be double the size of a Boeing 747 is headed toward a close approach with Earth next week.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroid 2016 NF23 is expected to skim past us on August 29 at just over 3 million miles away, or about 13 times the distance between Earth and the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The huge space rock is traveling more than 20,000 miles per hour (32,400 km\/h) and is considered to be a \u2018potentially hazardous\u2019 object given its proximity \u2013 but, its trajectory should see it soar safely by in the early days of September.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6087503\/Massive-asteroid-bigger-Great-Pyramid-Giza-make-close-approach-Earth-WEEK.html?ito=social-facebook\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6087503\/Massi...l-facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31\ud83d\ude31 A massive asteroid estimated to be double the size of a Boeing 747 is headed toward a close approach with Earth next week. Asteroid 2016 NF23 is expected to skim past us on August 29 at just over 3 million miles away, or about 13 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81985","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\/81985","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82056,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985\/revisions\/82056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}