{"id":416487,"date":"2017-12-12T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=617e5c9eef55b00457d1cb5744f1a2e9"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:26:00","slug":"an-asteroid-gets-its-close-up-as-geminids-light-up-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=416487","title":{"rendered":"An Asteroid Gets Its Close-Up As Geminids Light Up The Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/12\/12\/gettyimages-501054088_wide-907611747bb428f6ce836565dc6d44b3337eb2d7.jpg?s=600' alt='A photographer looks at the night sky to see the annual Geminid meteor shower in northern Italy in December 2015. This year's shower coincides with a close-range visit by its parent asteroid.'\/><\/p>\n<p>The Earth&#8217;s encounter with asteroid 3200 Phaethon on Saturday will be its closest since 1974 \u2014 and the closest it will be until 2093. The flyby means good gazing for amateur astronomers.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Marco Bertorello\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=570206648' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Earth&#8217;s encounter with asteroid 3200 Phaethon on Saturday will be its closest since 1974 &mdash; and the closest it will be until 2093. The flyby means good gazing for amateur astronomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416487","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\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416488,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416487\/revisions\/416488"}],"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=416487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}