{"id":613046,"date":"2019-04-29T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=131a4855e7d5fc68a1c889b086eb4ea4"},"modified":"2019-04-29T14:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:52:55","slug":"scientists-planning-now-for-asteroid-flyby-a-decade-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=613046","title":{"rendered":"Scientists planning now for asteroid flyby a decade away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak across the sky, getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as bright as the stars in the Little Dipper. But it won&#8217;t be a satellite or an airplane\u2014it will be a 1,100-foot-wide (340-meter-wide) near-Earth asteroid called 99942 Apophis that will cruise harmlessly by Earth, about 19,000 miles (31,000 kilometers) above the surface. That&#8217;s within the distance that some of our spacecraft that orbit Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak across the sky, getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as bright as the stars in the Little Dipper. But it won&#8217;t be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3230,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613046","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\/3230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=613046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613047,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613046\/revisions\/613047"}],"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=613046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}