{"id":491111,"date":"2018-06-25T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=6d074ac3be4f469e5908c360ce8bb7a7"},"modified":"2018-06-25T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:56:00","slug":"what-is-a-near-earth-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=491111","title":{"rendered":"What is a near-Earth asteroid?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/06\/what_is_a_near-earth_asteroid\/17565278-1-eng-GB\/What_is_a_near-Earth_asteroid_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWe often hear from astronomers and other scientists about &#8216;near-earth asteroids&#8217; &#8211; lumps of rock and metal that orbit through our Solar System, and pass close enough to our planet to pose an impact risk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut many people wonder what this means, and ask additional questions. How many are there? Where do they come from? And why should we care about them?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn less than 90 seconds, our video will answer these questions and more, and show what ESA is doing about the risks they pose, helping to safeguard our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often hear from astronomers and other scientists about &#8216;near-earth asteroids&#8217; &#8211; lumps of rock and metal that orbit through our Solar System, and pass close enough to our planet to pose an impact risk.<\/p>\n<p>But many people wonder what this me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491111","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491112,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491111\/revisions\/491112"}],"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=491111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}