{"id":14847,"date":"2011-11-09T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=14847"},"modified":"2011-11-09T08:36:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:36:22","slug":"asteroid-barely-misses-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/11\/asteroid-barely-misses-earth","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Barely Misses Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zipped by Earth on Tuesday in the closest encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists ruled out any chance of a collision but turned their telescopes skyward to learn more about the object known as 2005 YU55. Its closest approach to Earth was pegged at a distance of 202,000 miles at 6:28 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just inside the moon&#8217;s orbit; the average distance between Earth and the moon is 239,000 miles. The last time a large cosmic interloper came that close to Earth was in 1976, and experts say it won&#8217;t happen again until 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at NASA&#8217;s Deep Space Network in the California desert have tracked the quarter-mile-wide asteroid since last week as it approached from the direction of the sun at 29,000 mph. Astronomers and amateur skygazers around the world kept watch, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zipped by Earth on Tuesday in the closest encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-14847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}