{"id":303459,"date":"2017-04-19T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=49808e5a037be24ba64523ef53f1111a"},"modified":"2017-04-19T11:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:09:49","slug":"an-asteroid-is-swinging-by-earth-today-for-its-closest-visit-in-400-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=303459","title":{"rendered":"An Asteroid Is Swinging By Earth Today For Its Closest Visit In 400 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/04\/19\/asteroidjo25-20170418_wide-9805c6f990cf76bf1f43b4e455aa08723d0e9ccd.png?s=600' alt='This composite of 30 images of asteroid 2014 JO25 was generated with radar data collected using NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California's Mojave Desert.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry: Astronomers say asteroid 2014 JO25, which is more than a third of a mile wide, will fly harmlessly past our planet. Still, it should come close enough to be visible with small telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/GSSR)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=524680317' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t worry: Astronomers say asteroid 2014 JO25, which is more than a third of a mile wide, will fly harmlessly past our planet. Still, it should come close enough to be visible with small telescopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303459","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\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303460,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303459\/revisions\/303460"}],"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=303459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}