{"id":82028,"date":"2018-08-24T20:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T03:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/potentially-hazardous-500-foot-asteroid-set-to-zoom-past-earth-at-20000-mph"},"modified":"2018-08-25T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T18:14:15","slug":"potentially-hazardous-500-foot-asteroid-set-to-zoom-past-earth-at-20000-mph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/potentially-hazardous-500-foot-asteroid-set-to-zoom-past-earth-at-20000-mph","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Potentially hazardous,\u2019 500-foot asteroid set to zoom past Earth at 20,000 mph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/potentially-hazardous-500-foot-asteroid-set-to-zoom-past-earth-at-20000-mph2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA \u2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued an alert that a \u201cpotentially hazardous asteroid\u201d is on a \u201cclose approach\u201d towards Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA has issued an alert that a \u201cpotentially hazardous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\/asteroids.html\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a>\u201d is on a \u201cclose approach\u201d toward Earth. However, it\u2019s nothing to be alarmed at, as the asteroid is expected to zoom past the planet approximately 3 million miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous space rock, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/air-and-space\/asteroids.html\">asteroid<\/a> 2016 NF23 and estimated to be between 230 and 525 feet in diameter, will zip past Earth on Aug. 29 at a velocity of 9.04 kilometers per second, or approximately 20,000 miles per hour, the government space agency said on its <a href=\"https:\/\/cneos.jpl.nasa.gov\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Close Approaches page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third largest near-Earth object (NEO) on the page, behind two other asteroids which will fly past Earth in the early part of September: 2001 RQ17 and 2015 FP118.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/08\/23\/potentially-hazardous-500-foot-asteroid-set-to-zoom-past-earth-at-20000-mph.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2018\/08\/23\/potentially-hazard...0-mph.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA \u2014 National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued an alert that a \u201cpotentially hazardous asteroid\u201d is on a \u201cclose approach\u201d towards Earth. NASA has issued an alert that a \u201cpotentially hazardous asteroid\u201d is on a \u201cclose approach\u201d toward Earth. However, it\u2019s nothing to be alarmed at, as the asteroid is expected to zoom past [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82028","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\/82028","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82045,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82028\/revisions\/82045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}