{"id":246576,"date":"2016-12-07T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=64005aeccdde1bea9c8ea47118bff3d6"},"modified":"2016-12-07T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:19:00","slug":"un-recognises-30-june-as-asteroid-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=246576","title":{"rendered":"UN recognises 30 June as Asteroid Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/11\/asteroid_passing_earth\/16487475-1-eng-GB\/Asteroid_passing_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nToday, the UN officially proclaimed 30 June \u2013 the anniversary of the most momentous asteroid impact event in recorded history \u2013 as international Asteroid Day, to raise awareness of the threat and opportunity represented by these small bodies scattered through space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/11\/asteroid_passing_earth\/16487475-1-eng-GB\/Asteroid_passing_Earth_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nToday, the UN officially proclaimed 30 June &ndash; the anniversary of the most momentous asteroid impact event in recorded history &ndash; as international Asteroid Day, to raise awareness of the threat and opportunity represented by these small bodies scattered through space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246577,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246576\/revisions\/246577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}