{"id":366687,"date":"2017-08-30T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=8df0d3d6206953b5c34daf82d2fc7ddd"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:35:01","slug":"house-sized-near-earth-objects-rarer-than-we-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=366687","title":{"rendered":"House-sized near Earth objects rarer than we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013 a small meteoroid, the size of a house, hurtled through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The explosion shattered windows, and more than a thousand people were treated for injuries from flying debris. How many similar-sized rocks have orbits that bring them close to Earth? A new study has answered that question using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The result lends new insights into the nature and origin of small meteoroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013 a small meteoroid, the size of a house, hurtled through Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The explosion shattered windows, and more than a thousand people were treated for injuries from flying debris. How man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366687","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366688,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366687\/revisions\/366688"}],"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=366687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}